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Placement

The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Alignment 76% connected

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adj…

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Apposition 76% connected

The act of adding; application; accretion.

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Balance 76% connected

An apparatus for weighing.

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Collocation 76% connected

The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

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Columniation 76% connected

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

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Composing 76% connected

of Compose

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Composition 76% connected

The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.

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Fenestration 76% connected

The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (an…

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Fingering 76% connected

of Finger

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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Implantation 76% connected

The act or process of implantating.

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Interposition 76% connected

The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

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Intervention 76% connected

The act of intervening; interposition.

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Juxtaposition 76% connected

A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.

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Orientation 76% connected

The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

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Planting 76% connected

of Plant

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Proportion 76% connected

The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, th…

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Proportionality 76% connected

The state of being in proportion.

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Ramification 76% connected

The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Stratification 76% connected

The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.

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Superposition 76% connected

The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geomet…

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Tandem 76% connected

One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.

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Arrange 74% connected

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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Arrange 74% connected

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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Arrangement 92% connected

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

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Locating 92% connected

of Locate

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Location 92% connected

The act or process of locating.

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Position 92% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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