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Pandemic

Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.

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Epidemic 84% connected

Alt. of Epidemical

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Epidemic 84% connected

Alt. of Epidemical

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General 84% connected

Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

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General 84% connected

Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

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Epidemic 76% connected

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Bar noun · 78% connection

the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

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Epidemiology noun · 78% connection

the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease

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Life expectancy noun · 78% connection

an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities

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Prevention noun · 78% connection

the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

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Ace noun · 78% connection

the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they h…

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Affecting adjective · 78% connection

Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.

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Algates adverb · 78% connection

Always; wholly; everywhere.

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All adjective · 78% connection

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the…

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Allwhere adverb · 78% connection

Everywhere.

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Caboodle noun · 78% connection

The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.

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Catalectic adjective · 78% connection

Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance.

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Comprehension noun · 78% connection

A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.

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Cosmopolite adjective · 78% connection

Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.

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Count verb · 78% connection

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enu…

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Cromlech noun · 78% connection

A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly i…

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Dollar noun · 78% connection

A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of Sou…

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Eachwhere adverb · 78% connection

Everywhere.

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Epidemical adjective · 78% connection

Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.

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Equator noun · 78% connection

The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface int…

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Integer noun · 78% connection

A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.

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Integral noun · 78% connection

A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.

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Level noun · 78% connection

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel…

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