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Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure.
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Broader term 3
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…
oewn 2023
0% interchangeable
Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.
An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…
oewn 2023
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One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
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Containing substance 3
The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…
oewn 2023
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A colorless gaseous substance (O/) obtained (as by the silent discharge of electricity in oxygen) as an allotropic form of oxygen, containing three a…
oewn 2023
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The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
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Substance part 1
A salt of selenious acid.
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Synonym 1
A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and ab…
oewn 2023
68% interchangeable
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