cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hyperexpansive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + expansive.
Senses: examples: text: Fanaticism, however, chooses no favorites, as Hoffer (1951) concludes, and so we presently turn to hyperexpansive prejudice.
ref: 1990, Kirk J. Schneider, The paradoxical self:
text: In cases of on-going, chronic trauma, on the other hand, Schneider suggests that the child may become unable to counteract, and thereby conform to their hyperconstrictive or hyperexpansive pressures.
ref: 2003, Mick Cooper, Existential Therapies, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Whether an individual in HIV-related psychotherapy manifests a hyperexpansive or hyperconstricted existential position vis-à-vis death anxiety, the therapeutic goal is to bring about movement to a more centered position in which the individual is able to accept the seriousness of the illness while also continuing to go about living as fully as possible within the constraints of the disease.
ref: 2004, Florence W. Kaslow, Robert F. Massey, Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, →ISBN, page 317:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Overly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion.
examples: text: Further, these fragments in 4Q158 are not merely harmonistic, but also hyperexpansive.
ref: 2008, Sidnie White Crawford, Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times, →ISBN, page 53:
text: For all the public focus on terrorism after the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, resource constraints emerged as one of the most important strategic challenges for a hyperexpansive American security posture.
ref: 2016, Jeremi Suri, Benjamin Valentino, Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy, →ISBN:
text: The sensation of a hyperexpansive, globalized, and omnipotent form of power, the new Leviathan of Empire, is counterbalanced by the inherent possibilities, or even revolutionary potentials, within the monster itself.
ref: 2016, Mitchell Dean, Kaspar Villadsen, State Phobia and Civil Society: The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault, →ISBN:
glosses: Having an extreme tendency to expand.
examples: text: As a consequence hyperexpansive multiplication operators are investigated..
ref: 2015, Yousef Estaremi, “Unbounded weighted conditional type operators on L^p spaces”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a class of operators closely related to the theory of negative definite functions on abelian semigroups.
optocapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opto- + capillary.
Senses: examples: text: Our device facilitates resonantly-enhanced optocapillary interactions that might enable optical excitation (/cooling) of capillary droplet-modes, including with the most-common and important liquid - water..
ref: 2015, Shai Maayani, Leopoldo L. Martin, Samuel Kaminski, Tal Carmon, “Cavity Optocapillaries”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to the interaction of light on capillary effects
photoconvective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + convective.
Senses: examples: text: The photoconvective forces demonstrated here provide a new tool for high bandwidth control of mechanical motion in cryogenic conditions, and have the potential to allow efficient transfer of electromagnetic energy to motional kinetic energy..
ref: 2015, D. L. McAuslan, G. I. Harris, C. Baker, Y. Sachkou, X. He, E. Sheridan, W. P. Bowen, “Microphotonic Forces From Superfluid Flow”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to photoconvection
photoconvection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + convection.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: convection under the influence of light
Related terms: photoconvective
plactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French plaxique.
Senses: examples: text: We obtain as a corollary that plactic monoids for any semisimple Lie algebra satisfy homological finiteness properties..
ref: 2015, Nohra Hage, “Finite convergent presentations of plactic monoids for semisimple lie algebras”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Based on all words in the alphabet of positive integers modulo Knuth equivalence.
Derived terms: hypoplactic
subpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpowers
Etymology: From sub- + power.
Senses: examples: text: Brazilian subimperialism implies policy of being a subpower; but the subpower that Brazil practices does not give us the key to the subimperialist stage which it has entered.
ref: 2000, Ronald H. Chilcote, Imperialism: Theoretical Directions, page 278:
text: Three of the subpowers of evil in spirit, the three unclean spirits, appear in verse 16:13 and directly relate via their corresponding clock lines to the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. The names of the remaining subpowers of evil are given in Revelation as follows: Wormwood, the second subpower of the false prophet; Apollyon and Abaddon, the two subpowers of the great whore; the minds of serpent and Magog, the two subpowers of the serpant; and finally Gog (also known as the names of blasphemy) and the scorpions of the earth, the two subpowers of the accuser of our brethren.
ref: 2013, Damiaan Kletter, The Revelation Code: What to Expect Through 2020, →ISBN, page 32:
text: William Safire, a conservative columnist for the New York Times, wrote that Clinton would be “remembered in history as a man who feared, flinched and failed,” whose diffidence in the face of “Nazi-style ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia had “turned a superpower into a subpower."
ref: 2015, W. Joseph Campbell, 1995: The Year the Future Began, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: A minor power; Something that has control over a limited domain that falls within the larger domain of a greater power.
examples: text: Using a result of Dranishnikov and Smith we prove that, under some conditions, the asymptotic power dimension of a proper metric space coincides with the dimension of its subpower corona.
ref: 2015, Jacek Kucab, Michael Zarichnyi, “Remarks on asymptotic power dimension”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of function such that for every exponent a, there is a small integer ε such that for any positive value x less than ε, its image lies between xᵃ and x⁻ᵃ .
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A natural number x, with the property that x = bⁱy for some y that is not multiple of b.
have seen this movie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has seen this movie
form: having seen this movie
form: had seen this movie
form: had seen this movie
Senses: examples: text: The 2008 presidential race may have been branded a "change" election, but abortion rights advocates have seen this movie before.
ref: 2008 June 23, Amy Sullivan, “Will Pro-Choice Women Back McCain?”, in Time, retrieved 06 Feb 2017:
text: After the defeat of the Soviets in 1989, civil war, state collapse and Taliban victory followed. The Afghan people have seen this movie already.
ref: 2013 November 28, John R. Allen, Michael E. O'Hanlon, “Ignore Karzai's Arrogant Insults”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Feb 2017:
text: Dominic Rossi, global chief investment officer at Fidelity, said […] “We have seen this movie before. […] One emerging market country after another gets left stranded.”
ref: 2014 January 27, Louise Armitstead, “Tide going out on emerging markets, warns Fidelity”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 06 Feb 2017:
text: According to Mary Rasenberger, executive director of the Authors Guild, this “blatantly commercial use of expressive authorship” comes as no surprise. “We’ve seen this movie before.”
ref: 2016 September 28, Richard Lea, quoting Mary Rasenberger, “Google swallows 11,000 novels to improve AI's conversation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: After bringing in a new management team that made changes such as upgrading the quality of the company’s products and tailoring them to its customer base, the firm helped it go public. It now has the most stores of any U.S. retail chain. Firms “bring resources and capabilities and [have]^([sic]) seen the movie before,” Kapp said.
ref: 2018 June 13, Bryce Covert, quoting Angela Kapp, “The Demise of Toys 'R' Us Is a Warning”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: To have experienced a situation which is the same as or similar to the current situation, especially with a sense of the unpleasantness or tiresomeness of the recurring situation.
Related terms: been there, done that
markspersonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From marksperson + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of marksmanship.
synonyms: word: marksmanship
gynae
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gyne
Senses: examples: text: gynae consult
glosses: (abbreviation, informal) gynaecological
gynae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynaes
form: gyne
Senses: examples: text: obs and gynae
glosses: Short for gynaecology
glosses: Short for gynaecologist
axizilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Forms: form: axizillas
Etymology: From axion + -zilla.
Senses: examples: text: The decay of Q to axizilla plus quark, and the subsequent decay of the axizilla to two photons can be fitted at the required level of 10#123;-38#125;#92;,#92;textrm#123;cm#125;²..
ref: 2015, Jihn E. Kim, “Is an axizilla possible for di-photon resonance?”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A heavy form of axion in an extension of the Standard Model.
butter fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter fats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butterfat.
axizillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Heavy axion-like particles, called axizillas, are simple extensions of the standard model(SM).
ref: 2015, Jihn E. Kim, “Is an axizilla possible for di-photon resonance?”, in arXiv:
glosses: plural of axizilla
butter-fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter-fats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butterfat.
butter fats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter fat (alternative form of butterfats).
butter-fats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter-fat (alternative form of butterfats).
barristor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barristors
Etymology: Blend of barrier + transistor
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of solid-state triode that features a variable barrier
Related terms: barrister
barristors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Graphene/silicon heterostructures have attracted tremendous interest as a new platform for diverse electronic and photonic devices such as barristors, solar cells, optical modulators, and chemical sensors.
ref: 2015, Yuan Liu, Jiming Sheng, Hao Wu, Qiyuan He, Hung-Chieh Cheng, Muhammad Imran Shakir, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, “High Current Density Vertical Tunneling Transistors from Graphene/Highly-Doped Silicon Heterostructures”, in arXiv:
glosses: plural of barristor
blackbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackboxes
Senses: examples: text: In the remaining section, we construct a novel model of quantum blackbox algorithms in non-deterministic classical computation.
ref: 2015, William Zeng, “The Abstract Structure of Quantum Algorithms”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of black box.
blackbox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blackboxes
form: blackboxing
form: blackboxed
form: blackboxed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black box.
contramodules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These results are then applied to the categories of contramodules over topological rings, which provide examples and counterexamples..
ref: 2015, Leonid Positselski, Jiri Rosicky, “Covers, envelopes, and cotorsion theories in locally presentable abelian categories and contramodule categories”, in arXiv:
glosses: plural of contramodule
contramodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contramodules
Etymology: From contra- + module.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A contraderived category of module
effectful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more effectful
form: most effectful
Etymology: From effect + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of effectual.
synonyms: word: effectual
examples: text: On the other hand, we hope it can contribute a small-step towards the ultimate goal of an elegant fully fledged language for certified effectful programming..
ref: 2015, Matthijs Vákár, “A Framework for Dependent Types and Effects”, in arXiv:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Implementing effects.
eigenvolume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenvolumes
Etymology: From eigen- + volume.
Senses: examples: text: Radiopaque markers implanted in the left ventricle allow one to follow the motion of specific elements of myocardium and compute a measure of relative left ventricular volume, called eigenvolume.
ref: 1988, Excerpta medica. Section 14. Radiology - Volume 60, page 81:
text: Real gas particles have a finite size. When packed as densely as possible they occupy the so-called eigenvolume. The steep rise in pressure shown by the ideal gas equation as V -> 0 must occur in reality when the gas is compressed to its eigenvolume.
ref: 2012, Erich W. Schmid, Gerhard Spitz, Wolfgang Lösch, Theoretical Physics on the Personal Computer, →ISBN, page 102:
text: However, when we apply the eigenvolume corrections with the mass-proportional eigenvolume v#95;i#92;simm#95;i, fixed to the realistic proton hard-core radius r#95;p#92;simeq 0.4-0.5 fm, we observe a second minimum in the temperature dependence of the #92;chi², located at the significantly higher temperatures.
ref: 2015, Volodymyr Vovchenko, Horst Stöcker, “Heavy-ion hot hadron matter freezes out at T=170-320 MeV?”, in arXiv:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A volume determined by molecular refraction measurements, based on the assumption that the molecular packing coefficient is constant.
extremalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extremalises
form: extremalising
form: extremalised
form: extremalised
Senses: glosses: To create the extreme form of; to form the extremum of
extremalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: On the classical field theory level, they are described by an action functional extremalising the volume of a manifold swept by a propagating membrane.
ref: 2015, Jan Vysoky, “Geometry of Membrane Sigma Models”, in arXiv:
glosses: present participle and gerund of extremalise
fluogermanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluogermanates
Etymology: From fluo- + germanate.
Senses: examples: text: Structure analysis indicate that the transformation results in a germanate polycrystalline layer consisting of germanium oxide and ammonium fluogermanate with a preferential crystal growth orientation in <101> direction.
ref: 2015, S. Kalem, O. Arthursson, I. Romandic, “Transformation of germanium to fluogermanates”, in Applied Physics-A, volume 423:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of a germanate in which one or more oxygen atoms have been replaced by fluorine
fluogermanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Energy dispersive studies reveal the presence of hexagonal {\alpha}-phase GeO2 crystal clusters and ammonium fluogermanates around these clusters in addition to a surface oxide layer.
ref: 2015, S. Kalem, O. Arthursson, I. Romandic, “Transformation of germanium to fluogermanates”, in Applied Physics-A, volume 423:
glosses: plural of fluogermanate
glycoanalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoanalysts
Etymology: From glyco- + analyst.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A scientist who analyzes carbohydrates
Related terms: glycoanalysis
glycoanalytical
glycoanalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The second is a machine learning model called Smart Anotation Enhancement Graph (SAGE), which learns the behavior of glycoanalysts to select annotations generated by GELATO that emulate human interpretation of the spectra..
ref: 2015, Khalifeh AlJadda, Rene Ranzinger, Melody Porterfield, Brent Weatherly, Mohammed Korayem, John A. Miller, Khaled Rasheed, Krys J. Kochut, William S. York, “GELATO and SAGE: An Integrated Framework for MS Annotation”, in arXiv:
glosses: plural of glycoanalyst
metadevices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metadevice
metadevice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metadevices
Etymology: From meta- + device.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, by integrating individually addressable arrays of metadevices, we demonstrated a new class of spatially varying digital metasurfaces where the local dielectric constant can be reconfigured with a bias voltage.
ref: 2015, Osman Balci, Ertugrul Karademir, Semih Cakmakyapan, Nurbek Kakenov, Emre Ozan Polat, Humeyra Caglayan, Ekmel Ozbay, Coskun Kocabas, “Electrically Switchable Metadevices”, in arXiv:
glosses: Any device that exploits the properties of a metamaterial.
multicrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + crystalline.
Senses: examples: text: The results of the SE analysis between 200 nm and 1000 nm indicate that the SL system can effectively be described using interdiffusion/intermixing model by assuming a multicrystalline Si and Si1-xGex intermixing layers.
ref: 2013, Seref Kalem, Orjan Arthursson, Peter Werner, “Ellipsometry studies of Si/Ge superlattices with embedded Ge dots”, in Applied Physics-A, volume 112, pages 555–559:
glosses: Composed of multiple crystalline forms
multiqudit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + qudit.
Senses: examples: text: We discuss the hidden correlations in single-qudit states as a new resource for quantum technologies analogous to the known resource in correlations associated with the entanglement in multiqudit systems..
ref: 2015, Margarita A Man'ko, Vladimir I Man'ko, “Hidden correlations in indivisible qudits as a resource for quantum technologies on examples of superconducting circuits”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Composed of multiple qudits
nonbirefringence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + birefringence.
Senses: examples: text: This nonbirefringence constrains the spacetime constitutive tensor to high precision to a core metric form with an axion degree and a dilaton degree of freedom.
ref: 2015, Wei-Tou Ni, “Equivalence Principles, Spacetime Structure and the Cosmic Connection”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The condition of being nonbirefringent
oxybismuthides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In this article, we deliver a comprehensive analysis of the SC properties and phase diagrams across several families of unconventional superconductors, including the copper-oxides, heavy-fermions, organics and the recently discovered iron-pnictides, iron-chalcogenides, and oxybismuthides.
ref: 2015, Tanmoy Das, Christos Panagopoulos, “Two types of superconducting domes in unconventional superconductors”, in arXiv:
glosses: plural of oxybismuthide
oxybismuthide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxybismuthides
Etymology: From oxy- + bismuthide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that is a mixed oxide and bismuthide
paramagnetoelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + magnetoelectric.
Senses: examples: text: The value of the paramagnetoelectric (PME) coefficient shows a pronounced maximum near the ferroelectric-to-paraelectric phase transition temperature, T_C, and then decreases sharply to zero for T>T_C.
ref: 2015, V. V. Laguta, A. N. Morozovska, E. A. Eliseev, I. P. Raevski, S. I. Raevskaya, E. I. Sitalo, S. A. Prosandeev, L. Bellaiche, “Room-temperature paramagnetoelectric effect in magnetoelectric multiferroics Pb(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3 and its solid solution with PbTiO3”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the effect of an electric field on paramagnetic materials
photogain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photogains
Etymology: From photo- + gain.
Senses: examples: text: At a reverse bias of 3V, we achieve avalanche multiplication, with 0.37A/W responsivity and avalanche photogain~2.
ref: 2015, Ilya Goykhman, Ugo Sassi, Boris Desiatov, Noa Mazurski, Silvia Milana, Domenico de Fazio, Anna Eiden, Jacob Khurgin, Joseph Shappir, Uriel Levy, Andrea C. Ferrari, “On-chip integrated, silicon-graphene plasmonic Schottky photodetector, with high responsivity and avalanche photogain”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The gain (multiplication factor) of a photodetector or photomultiplier
protostring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protostrings
Etymology: From proto- + string.
Senses: examples: text: If the transverse space of the protostring could be "decompactified", string bit models might provide an appealing and solid foundation for superstring theory..
ref: 2015, Charles B. Thorn, “1/N Perturbations in Superstring Bit Models”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: string theory
glosses: A hypothetical precursor to a fundamental string that can evolve into a fundamental string as the higher dimensions compactify.
quermassintegral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quermassintegrals
Etymology: From German Quermaße + integral.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
semigrand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + grand.
Senses: examples: text: An upright semi-grand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive virtuosity.
ref: 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page 64:
text: Both companies make the upright, grand, semigrand, and baby-grand pianos, and in such styles as colonial, empire, antique, etc.
ref: 1910, The Oriental Economic Review, volume 1, page 394:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of a piano: having a size intermediate between grand and baby grand.
examples: text: A cluster algorithm for Monte Carlo simulations in a semigrand ensemble was used.
ref: 2015, Wojciech T. Góźdź, Alina Ciach, “Critical Point Calculation for Binary Mixtures of Symmetric Non-additive Hard Disks”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Pertaining to a distribution of species that holds the number of particles, pressure, and temperature fixed but allows mole fractions of species within a phase to fluctuate.
Inti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪnti
Etymology: From Quechua Inti.
Senses: glosses: The Inca God of the Sun
subkernels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We prove that, at regular values lying in a strong convergence region, the resolvent kernels for a continuous bi-Carleman kernel vanishing at infinity can be expressed as uniform limits of sequences of resolvent kernels for its approximating subkernels of Hilbert-Schmidt type.
ref: 2015, Igor M. Novitskii, “Some properties of the resolvent kernels for continuous bi-Carleman kernels”, in arXiv:
glosses: plural of subkernel
superferromagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + ferromagnetic.
Senses: examples: text: In the superferromagnetic phase the magnetization response exhibited remarkable anisotropy, with anomalously large polar magnetization in the applied magnetic filed, which decreases approaching the film percolation transition.
ref: 2015, N. N. Kovaleva, A. A. Gorbatsevich, A. V. Bagdinov, O. Stupakov, E. I. Demikhov, A. Dejneka, F. A. Pudonin, “Unveiling superferromagnetic polar state in inhomogeneous nanoisland FeNi films featuring anomalously strong planar diamagnetic response near percolation transition”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to superferromagnetism
superferromagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + ferromagnetism.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of superparamagnetism
Related terms: superferromagnetic
thermovoltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermovoltages
Etymology: From thermo- + voltage.
Senses: examples: text: This thermo-phase increases up to a maximal value of #92;pi#47;2 after which thermovoltage is expected to develop.
ref: 2015, Yaakov Kleeorin, Yigal Meir, Yonatan Dubi, “Large Tunable Thermophase in Superconductor -- Quantum Dot -- Superconductor Josephson Junctions”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: thermoelectric voltage
transrelativistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + relativistic.
Senses: examples: text: Such choked jets may explain transrelativistic SNe and low-luminosity (LL) GRBs.
ref: 2015, Nicholas Senno, Kohta Murase, Peter Meszaros, “Choked Jets and Low-Luminosity Gamma-Ray Bursts as Hidden Neutrino Sources”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a transition from a nonrelativistic to a relativistic one
DPCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of differential pulse-code modulation.
Printer's Devilry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In addition, based on a British form called "Printer's Devilry," each answer word has been " stolen" from its clue, wherein it was originally hidden as consecutive letters.
ref: 1968, Albert Ross Eckler, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics:
text: Solvers must not only complete the diagram but also send in a "Printer's Devilry" clue to the Keyword in the Playfair Square.
ref: 1971, New York Magazine, page 65:
text: He set frequently for the Listener between 1932 and 1948, concocting such exoticisms as Printer's Devilry, Playfair and Word Ladder.
ref: 2013, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of printer's devilry (“crossword puzzle”).
Tatooine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌtætuːˈiːn/
Etymology: From French Tataouine, from Arabic [script needed] (Tataween)
Senses: examples: text: Planets that orbit two stars are called "circumbinary planets." They're also sometimes called "Tatooine planets," after the most well-known example.
ref: 2016 June 14, Avery Thompson, “We've Discovered the Largest Planet to Orbit Two Suns Like Tatooine”https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a21332/tatooine-planet-discovered-orbiting-two-suns/, Popular Mechanics
text: Glass surrounds the cabin to provide unrivaled views of the environment, whether it’s an earthly vista or the binary sunset over the fictional Tatooine desert.
ref: 2019 September 10, Kirsten Korosec, “Audi’s off-roading electric concept would be perfect for Tatooine”https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/10/audis-off-roading-electric-concept-would-be-perfect-for-tatooine/, TechCrunch
text: Because the majority of stars are thought to be locked in such binary systems, learning about their early lives — especially how they form and maintain Tatooine-type planets — is of great interest to astronomers.
ref: 2019 October 4, Jake Parks, “Baby Binary Star Gives Astronomers a Glimpse at How Planets Like Tatooine Form”https://www.discovermagazine.com/baby-binary-star-gives-astronomers-a-glimpse-at-how-planets-like-tatooine-40315, Discover Magazine
text: Moisture farming is not just for the deserts of Tatooine — advances in fog harvesting technology may provide an additional fresh water source in foggy coastal areas with little precipitation.
ref: 2019 November 26, “Moisture Farming: Harvesting Fog Can Provide Fresh Water in Desert Regions”https://scitechdaily.com/moisture-farming-harvesting-fog-can-provide-fresh-water-in-desert-regions/, American Physical Society, SciTechDaily
text: The more interesting case is circumbinary planets (CBPs), popularly known as Tatooine-like worlds, where the stars are so close together that a planet would need to orbit both to be at a safe distance.
ref: 2023 January 25, Stephen Luntz, “Tatooine-like Planets Orbiting Two Suns Could Be Habitable”https://www.iflscience.com/tatooine-like-planets-orbiting-two-suns-could-be-habitable-67241, IFL Science
text: From the ground it could almost look like two suns in the sky, creating a Tatooine effect.
ref: 2023 October 30, Joe Scott, What Would Happen If The Earth Had Rings?:
glosses: A fictional desert planet in Star Wars.
underconstrainedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underconstrained + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [...] the underconstrainedness of the sensor data is handled instead by the use of active perception strategies to resolve sensor ambiguity and uncertainty.
ref: 1992, Ed. Mongi Abidi, Rafael Gonzalez, Data Fusion in Robotics & Machine Intelligence, page 146:
glosses: The state or quality of being underconstrained
ass'n.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ass'n (association)
assn.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ass'n (association)
Primorje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Kvarner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Turopolje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Podunavlje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Podravina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Međimurje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Međimurska
Senses: glosses: A geographical region in the far north of Croatia.
glosses: A county of Croatia. County seat: Čakovec.
Posavina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Srijem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Spačva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Hrvatsko Zagorje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Gorski Kotar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Prigorje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of Croatia.
Sheb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A nickname for the given name Shelby.
Spacva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Spačva.
chironomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to chironomy.
Debye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: debye
Debye-Falkenhagen effect
Debye-Hückel theory
Debye length
Debye model
Debye radius
Debye-Scherrer method
Debye-Scherrer ring
Debye sphere
Debye temperature
Debye theory
Debye unit
Related terms: Peter Debye
physicist and physical chemist
printer's devilry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printer's devilries
form: printers' devilries
form: Printer's Devilry
Etymology: Formed by printer's devil + -ry or blend of printer's devil + devilry. As a crosswording term, coined by British crossword setter Alistair Ferguson Ritchie (Afrit).
Senses: examples: text: Remember: a Printer's Devilry clue need not make real sense in the “deviled” form offered as clue.
ref: 1973 January 1, New York Magazine, page 71:
text: I hope that devotees of our plain puzzles will forgive my offering prizes for Apex's Mrs Printer's Devilry Theme
ref: 1979, Games & Puzzles:
text: Numbered down clues are printer's devilry passages from which the light to be entered has been removed and the gap closed, leaving the remaining letters in their original order.
ref: 1989, The Listener:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A type of crossword puzzle where solvers have to identify the string of letters, spelling out a word, that has been removed from a sentence.
examples: text: This was not a printer's devilry, for taffetas, sugar, mats are similarly misstated.
ref: 1909, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record:
text: The writer adopted the initials after his nom de plume, Aeon, was once shortened accidentally through printer's devilry.
ref: 2002, Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 445:
text: A word of caution! The Bengali as well as the translated texts are not free from Printer's devilry.
ref: 2002, Pratibha India:
glosses: A typographical error.
Related terms: Titivillus
artificing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of artifice
hadders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hadder
intersorority
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + sorority.
Senses: glosses: Between sororities.
interfrat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + frat.
Senses: glosses: Between fraternities.
bioballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + ballistic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bioballistics.
unstuffable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stuffable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being stuffed.
aboods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abood
assagaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assagay
assagayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assagay
deintensifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deintensification
supergranulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supergranulation
sajdahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sajdah
Jallikattu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jallikkattu
form: Sallikattu
form: Sallikkattu
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil ஜல்லிக்கட்டு (jallikkaṭṭu), a variant of சல்லிக்கட்டு (callikkaṭṭu), from சல்லி (calli, “coins”) + கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “package”), which refers to a prize of coins that are tied to the bull's horns and that participants attempt to retrieve.
Senses: glosses: A practice or celebration, mainly in India, in which a bull is released and individuals attempt to restrain it.
remessaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remessage
remessages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remessage
remessaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remessage
sign one's death warrant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: signs one's death warrant
form: signing one's death warrant
form: signed one's death warrant
form: signed one's death warrant
Senses: examples: 1921, Míchael Collins, after signing the Anglo-Irish Treaty
Think — what have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past seven hundred years. Will anyone be satisfied at the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this; early this morning I signed my death warrant. I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous — a bullet may just as well have done the job five years ago.
glosses: To make a decision that dooms one to certain death.
phyllo pastries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllo pastry
protoporcelains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protoporcelain
dramaticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dramatics.
heroicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heroics.
costo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑ.stoʊ/
Forms: form: cost-
Etymology: From Latin costa (“a rib”) + -o-.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ribs.
scruffball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scruffballs
Etymology: From scruff + ball.
Senses: glosses: Any scruffy creature.
scruffballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scruffball
faces for radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face for radio
photoresistances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoresistance
photoresistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photoresistant
form: most photoresistant
Etymology: From photo- + resistant.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting photoresistance.
restrictivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restrictivist
restrictive practice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restrictive practices
Senses: topics: business
law
glosses: In antitrust law, any practice that restricts other business, such as price fixing, market sharing, monopolizing, or attempting to monopolize markets.
assimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assimulation
riband jaspers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riband jasper
lumberingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lumbering + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] the English translator […] must not follow the model offered by Mr. Longfellow in his pleasing and popular poem of Evangeline; for the merit of the manner and movement of Evangeline, when they are at their best, is to be tenderly elegant; and their fault, when they are at their worst, is to be lumbering; but Homer’s defect is not lumberingness, neither is tender elegance his excellence.
ref: 1861, Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford, London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, Lecture III, p. 80:
text: 1869, Topics of the Day. A Forecast of the Session, The Spectator, Volume 42, p. 188, 13 February, 1869,
[…] the one doubt in the public mind as to parliamentary government, the one cause which is so visibly alarming to the “philosophers” who influence the masses, is the excessive, sometimes the intolerable, lumberingness of its action.
text: One can feel little doubt about the increasing delicacy and precision of expression to-day if we compare a contemporary book with some English classic of the eighteenth or nineteenth century. That is still quite understandable to us, but in its bareness and occasional ineptitudes it seems halfway back to the limitations and lumberingness of Early English or Gothic.
ref: 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Language and Mental Growth”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 5th book (The Modern State in Control of Life), page 417:
glosses: The quality of being lumbering; awkwardness, ponderousness.
walshnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walshnuts
form: welshnut
Etymology: From Middle English walshenote, welshnote, from Old English *wealischnutu, equivalent to walsh + nut. Compare walnut.
Senses: glosses: walnut
hot bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot benches
Senses: examples: text: When arguing before a hot bench flexibility is of the greatest importance.
ref: 1983, Edward Domenic Re, Brief writing and oral argument, page 159:
text: Is it a hot bench or a cold bench? Do the particular judges on the panel ask a lot of questions?
ref: 1993, William H. Wolff, James A. Brogan, Appellate Practice and Procedure in Ohio, page 53:
text: They have a reputation for being a hot bench. They come in knowing the case, sometimes better than the lawyers.
ref: 1995, Aspen Publishers Editorial, Almanac of the Federal Judiciary, page 39:
text: David Moskovitz, a commissioner who served under Bradford, was notorious for introducing questions and issues and otherwise being a hot bench during hearings.
ref: 2009, Michael J. Kelly, Lives of Lawyers Revisited: Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice, page 82:
glosses: A judge or panel of judges who are very active in asking questions during an oral argument.
hot benches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot bench
oral argument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oral arguments
Senses: topics: law
hypernyms: argument
glosses: A portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions.
oral arguments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oral argument
Nothingville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Donald: Yoo hoo! Daisy!
Gladstone: Ignore him, baby! He's strictly from Nothingville!
ref: 1960, This Is Your Life, Donald Duck, Walt Disney comic:
glosses: A nonexistent place.
alertless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alertless
form: most alertless
Etymology: From alert + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Once in a while some attorney is found who does not realize his social responsibility to the community, who rants and wails about furnishing legal aid to the poor, but he is of the negative, inactive, alertless kind.
ref: 1916, National Conference of Legal Aid Bureaus and Societies, First Conference of Legal Aid Societies of the United States, page 43:
glosses: Synonym of unalert.
synonyms: word: unalert
examples: text: Before darkness fell, great dock fires were raging in the East End of London and this was followed by 247 planes bombing indiscriminately until near dawn. London was not to have another alertless night until 3 November.
ref: 2014, David Clampin, Advertising and Propaganda in World War II:
glosses: Without an alert.
contactomorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Specifically we prove if R#92;geq 1 there is no #92;psi#92;in#92;text#123;Cont#125;(#92;mathbb#123;R#125;#123;2n#125;#92;timesS¹), the group of compactly supported contactomorphisms of #92;mathbb#123;R#125;#123;2n#125;#92;timesS¹ which squeezes 1 into itself, i.e. maps the closure of #92;widehat#123;B#125;(R) into #92;widehat#123;B#125;(R).
ref: 2015, Maia Fraser, “Contact non-squeezing at large scale in ℝ²ⁿ×S¹”, in arXiv:
glosses: plural of contactomorphism
coquasitriangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + quasitriangular.
Senses: examples: text: Our construction unifies quasitriangular and coquasitriangular Hom-Hopf algebras and Hom-Yetter-Drinfeld modules.
ref: 2015, Daowei Lu, “The braided monoidal structure on the category of Hom-type Doi-Hopf modules”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: dual to something quasitriangular.
heliolongitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliolongitudes
Etymology: From helio- + longitude.
Senses: examples: text: Recent modelling of solar energetic particles (SEPs) propagation through the heliospheric turbulence, also discussed in this workshop, has investigated the role of the pitch-angle scattering and the perpendicular transport in spreading particles in heliolongitude, as shown by multi-spacecraft measurements (STEREO A/B, ACE, SOHO, etc.) at 1 AU in various energy ranges.
ref: 2015, F. Fraschetti, “Cross-field transport and pitch-angle anisotropy of solar energetic particles in MHD turbulence”, in arXiv:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A longitude described in terms of solar coordinates.
Derived terms: heliolongitudinal
Related terms: heliolatitude
intercomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + complex.
Senses: examples: text: Minimum energy pathway characterization of the AIMD-sampled reaction events confirms these observations and identifies that In-carboxylate dissociation energetics solely determine the barrier along the In-P bond formation pathway, which is lower for intercomplex (13 kcal/mol) than intracomplex (21 kcal/mol) mechanisms.
ref: 2015, Lisi Xie, Qing Zhao, Klavs F. Jensen, Heather J. Kulik, “Direct Observation of Early-stage Quantum Dot Growth Mechanisms with High-temperature Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics”, in arXiv:
glosses: Between complexes
intracomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + complex.
Senses: examples: text: Minimum energy pathway characterization of the AIMD-sampled reaction events confirms these observations and identifies that In-carboxylate dissociation energetics solely determine the barrier along the In-P bond formation pathway, which is lower for intercomplex (13 kcal/mol) than intracomplex (21 kcal/mol) mechanisms.
ref: 2015, Lisi Xie, Qing Zhao, Klavs F. Jensen, Heather J. Kulik, “Direct Observation of Early-stage Quantum Dot Growth Mechanisms with High-temperature Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics”, in arXiv:
glosses: Within a complex
microsupport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsupports
Etymology: From micro- + support.
Senses: examples: text: A greater number of elements may be detected by means of a thin pyrographite or glassy carbon microsupport (cross section 0.1-0.5 mm2), which is introduced into a high-temperature flame such as acetylene/nitrous oxide.
ref: 1978, American Laboratory - Volume 10, page 20:
text: This structure is in contrast to asymmetric membranes in which thin salt barrier is formed during gelation and consist of the same material as the underlying microsupport.
ref: 1980, Anthony Delyannis, E Delyannis, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Fresh Water from the Sea.:
text: A salient feature of the approach is the assessment of the microsupport effect at the mostly sharp toe and root notches of the welded joints according to the Neuber microstructural support hypothesis.
ref: 1998, Dieter Radaj, Cetin Morris Sonsino, Fatigue Assessment of Welded Joints by Local Approaches, →ISBN, page 122:
text: The data reported here show that Dielectric spectroscopy can detect the uptake of serum proteins by the microsupport following the latter exposure to complete growth medium.
ref: 2013, R. E. Spier, J. B. Griffiths, W. Berthold, Animal Cell Technology: Products of Today, Prospects for Tomorrow, →ISBN:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Extremely localized structural support.
examples: text: However, in the rural and sparsely populated areas in Sweden there is microsupport for investments not exceeding SEK 40 000.
ref: 1996, Books For Life Foundation, Grameen Bank/micro-credit Ideas: Report from a Seminar, →ISBN, page 19:
text: In fact, daily life consists of little besides these kinds of microsupports that bolster broader social and cultural norms and tendencies.
ref: 2016, Louisa Lombard, State of Rebellion, →ISBN:
glosses: Social support provided by small acts.
examples: text: We show that many interesting spaces -- including all positroid strata and wild character varieties -- are moduli of constructible sheaves on a surface with microsupport in a Legendrian link.
ref: 2015, Vivek Shende, David Treumann, Harold Williams, Eric Zaslow, “Cluster varieties from Legendrian knots”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A closed involutive cone in the cotangent bundle of codirections in which the cohomology of the object does not propagate.
photogravitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + gravitational.
Senses: examples: text: The case of the planar circular photogravitational restricted three-body problem where the more massive primary is an emitter of radiation is numerically investigated.
ref: 2015, Euaggelos E. Zotos, “Unveiling the influence of the radiation pressure in nature of orbits in the photogravitational restricted three-body problem”, in A&SS, volume 2015:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the effects of light radiation on the gravitational attraction to a star
I told you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to inform the listener that a statement or affirmation made before was true, despite the listener's doubts.