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Aberration
noun · 78% connection
The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
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Acoustic projection
noun · 78% connection
the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection…
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Actinology
noun · 78% connection
The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays.
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Analemma
noun · 78% connection
An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east…
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Chimney-breast
noun · 78% connection
The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a bu…
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Curtate
adjective · 78% connection
Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the dist…
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Elevation
noun · 78% connection
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, et…
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Fall
verb · 78% connection
To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the…
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Glory
noun · 78% connection
Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.
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Graphics
noun · 78% connection
The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.
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Heat
noun · 78% connection
A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as man…
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Horn
noun · 78% connection
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and…
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Hyperbola
noun · 78% connection
A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It…
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Inclinnation
noun · 78% connection
The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.
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Indicatrix
noun · 78% connection
A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of…
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Lens
noun · 78% connection
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the…
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Light
noun · 78% connection
That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.
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Malleolus
noun · 78% connection
A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that…
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