yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ampere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after French physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836).
Inflected forms:
form: amperes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ampère
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: A
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A unit of electrical current, the standard base unit in the International System of Units; colloquially amp. Abbreviation: amp, Symbol: A
pos: noun
examples: Definition: The ampere, symbol A, is the SI unit of electric current. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the elementary charge e to be 1.602 176 634 x 10⁻¹⁹ when expressed in the unit C, which is equal to A s, where the second is defined in terms of Δν_(Cs). (The International Bureau of Weights and Measures)
If the volt, ampere and ohm were taken as the absolute units, the practical units would be the ampere, begohm and begavolt, names just as convenient as ampere, coulomb and farad.
Translations:
candela
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin candēla (“candle”). Doublet of candle and chandelle.
Inflected forms:
form: candelas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: candelae
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: cd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 10¹² hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian. Symbol: cd
pos: noun
Translations:
kelvin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Irish-born Scottish physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.
Inflected forms:
form: kelvins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; ¹⁄_(273.16) of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.
pos: noun
examples: Ice melts above 273.15 kelvins.
Water boils above 373.15 kelvins.
gloss: One degree of difference on this scale, as a unit interval.
pos: noun
examples: The dew point here today is only 1 kelvin above what it was yesterday.
The interval between the freezing and boiling points of water is 100 kelvins.
gloss: A measurement of color warmth defined by the temperature kelvin at which an incandescent blackbody would emit a given color.
pos: noun
Derived words: kilokelvin
microkelvin
millikelvin
nanokelvin
petakelvin
picokelvin
Translations:
kilogram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French kilogramme. By surface analysis, kilo- + gram.
Inflected forms:
form: kilograms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kilogramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: chiliogramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chilogramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10⁻³⁴ when expressed in units of kg⋅m²⋅s⁻¹. Symbol: kg
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: megagram < gigagram
Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram < milligram < gram
Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.
gloss: The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
examples: A nan (bread) costs 25 Afghanis : a kilogram of beef 800 Afghanis and mutton of the same weight for 1200 Afghanis; […]
Review of systems was positive for unintentional weight gain of 13.5 kilograms in the last eight months, excessive fatigue, fever, difficulty focusing, one episode of painful oral ulcer on the roof of her mouth, change in the hair texture with nonscarring alopecia, shortness of breath with exertion, and constipation.
Synonyms: kilo
kg
Derived words: kilogram calorie
kilogram-force
kilogram-metre
metre-kilogram-second
multikilogram
Translations:
becquerel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French becquerel. Named after the French physicist Henri Becquerel.
Inflected forms:
form: becquerels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radioactive activity; the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. Symbol: Bq
pos: noun
Translations:
coulomb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French coulomb, from the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.
Inflected forms:
form: coulombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C
pos: noun
examples: He is charged up with enough coulombs to make his hair stand on end.
Translations:
farad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the English physicist Michael Faraday.
Inflected forms:
form: farads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical capacitance; the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt across the capacitor.
pos: noun
Translations:
joule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after English physicist James Prescott Joule (1818–1889). The surname is a variant of Joel.
Inflected forms:
form: joules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of energy, work and heat; the work required to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one metre. Equivalent to one watt-second (one watt of power acting for a duration of one second).
pos: noun
Translations:
litre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Related to Latin lībra. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, livre, and rottol.
Inflected forms:
form: litres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: liter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbol: L, l, or ℓ.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre
Meronyms: picolitre < nanolitre < microlitre < millilitre
You should be able to fill four cups with one litre of water.
gloss: A measure of volume equivalent to a litre.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: attolitre
centilitre
decalitre
decilitre
exalitre
femtolitre
gigalitre
hectolitre
kilolitre
litrebike
megalitre
microlitre
millilitre
multilitre
myrialitre
nanolitre
petalitre
picolitre
ronnalitre
teralitre
yoctolitre
yottalitre
Translations:
lumen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūmen (“light, an opening”). Use as a unit was first adopted by French physicist André Blondel in 1894.
Inflected forms:
form: lumens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lumina
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.
pos: noun
gloss: The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ.
pos: noun
gloss: The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall.
pos: noun
gloss: The bore of a tube such as a hollow needle or catheter.
pos: noun
Related words: candela
luminal
lux
Derived words: decalumen
endolumen
kilolumen
lumenal
lumenally
lumened
lumen-hour
lumenize
lumenless
lumen method
lumenogenesis
lumen second
lumen-second
multilumen
teralumen
Translations:
hertz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894).
Inflected forms:
form: hertz
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hertzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second.
pos: noun
examples: Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.
Translations:
ohm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Bavarian physicist Georg Ohm. A German surname, first recorded in the 12th century, from German Ohm (“uncle”), from Proto-West Germanic *auhaim (“maternal uncle”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *awô (“grandfather, paternal uncle”) + *haimaz (“home”). Doublet of oom and of dialectal eam (“uncle”).
Inflected forms:
form: ohms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere.
pos: noun
examples: If the volt, ampere and ohm were taken as the absolute units, the practical units would be the ampere, begohm and begavolt, names just as convenient as ampere, coulomb and farad.
As the test light voltage touches terminal "C7", the module should switch, causing the ohmmeter to "overrange" if the meter is in the 1000-2000 ohms position.
Translations:
Laotian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Laos + -ian, or after French laotien.
Base: Laos
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Laotians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from the Lao People's Democratic Republic or of Lao descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Laotian people or the Laotian language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
radian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusbor.
English radius
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English radian
From radius + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: radians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angle: the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle.
pos: noun
Translations:
lux
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūx (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, blank, light, bright, clear”), Ancient Greek λύκη (lúkē, “light, morning twilight”), Sanskrit रोचते (rocate), Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (rōz, “day”) and Old English lēoht (noun) (English light).
Inflected forms:
form: lux
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: luxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: luces
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
pos: noun
examples: Some volunteers slept in ambient light of about 100 lux and some in only 3 lux, which is close to total darkness.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:lux.
Translations:
newton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) in 1948.
Inflected forms:
form: newtons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: kilonewton < meganewton < giganewton < teranewton < petanewton < exanewton < zettanewton < yottanewton
Meronyms: piconewton < nanonewton < micronewton < millinewton
Translations:
pascal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French pascal, named after French scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal. Doublet of Paschal.
Inflected forms:
form: pascals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of pressure and stress; one newton per square metre. Symbol: Pa.
pos: noun
Translations:
Omani
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic عُمَان (ʕumān)bor.
English Oman
English -i
English Omani
From Oman + -i.
Inflected forms:
form: Omanis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Oman or of Omani descent.
pos: noun
examples: Most of the three- and four-story white-washed buildings that we passed were built of pink coraline, which is both plentiful and fractile, and date back centuries to when Omanis and Indians based on Zanzibar dominated the African East Coast trade.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Oman or the Omani people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Nicaraguan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Nicaragua
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Nicaraguan
From Nicaragua + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Nicaraguans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Nicaragua or the people of Nicaragua.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Widespread anti-regime protests in 2018 were also met with brutal force, with Nicaraguan security forces killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and arbitrarily detaining many, according to Human Rights Watch. Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled the country.
gloss: A person from Nicaragua or of Nicaraguan descent.
pos: noun
examples: Widespread anti-regime protests in 2018 were also met with brutal force, with Nicaraguan security forces killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and arbitrarily detaining many, according to Human Rights Watch. Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled the country.
Translations:
Guadeloupean
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Guadeloupe
English -an
English Guadeloupean
From Guadeloupe + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Guadeloupeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Guadeloupe or of Guadeloupean descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Guadeloupe, the Guadeloupean people or the Guadeloupean language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Chadian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Chad
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Chadian
From Chad + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Chadians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Chad, a country in Africa.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Cameroonian and Chadian soldiers stationed there managed to kill 150 invaders. Among them was the son of Ahmadou Moustafa, a Fotokol resident.
gloss: A person from Chad or of Chadian descent.
pos: noun
examples: He is one of the tens of thousands of Chadians who fled last year’s fighting in Libya and are now back in their homeland.
Translations:
Azeri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Turkish Azeri.
Inflected forms:
form: Azeris
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Azari
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Azerbaijan or of Azerbaijani descent.
pos: noun
Translations:
Burmese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Burma
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Burmese
From Burma + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: Birmese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Burmese
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Birmese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Burma (Myanmar) or its people or language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person from Myanmar or of Burmese descent.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: A medium-sized, short-haired domestic cat of a breed originating in Thailand.
pos: noun
Translations:
Martinican
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Martinique
English -an
English Martinican
From Martinique + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Martinicans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Martiniquan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Martinican
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Martinican
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Martiniquan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Martinique or of Martinican descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Martinique, the Martinican people or the Martinican language.
pos: adj
Synonyms: Martiniquais
Translations:
siemens
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the German inventor Werner von Siemens.
Inflected forms:
form: siemens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical conductance; the electric conductance in a body that has a resistance of one ohm.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: mho, ℧
Translations:
guitarist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā)bor.
Aramaic קיתראbor.
Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.
Old Spanish guitarra
Spanish guitarrabor.
English guitar
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English guitarist
From guitar + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: guitarists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who plays a guitar.
pos: noun
Translations:
saxophonist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English saxophone
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English saxophonist
From saxophone + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: saxophonists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who owns, plays or practices with the saxophone.
pos: noun
examples: They enjoyed music from a live saxophonist during the journey before visiting Braintree Town Hall for refreshments and Christmas cake.
Translations:
trombonist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trombone
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English trombonist
From trombone + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: trombonists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who plays the trombone.
pos: noun
Translations:
Dodecanese
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Greek Δωδεκάνησα (Dodekánisa, “twelve islands”), from δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The people of this island chain.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
parable
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English parable, from Old French parable, parabole, from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison”). Doublet of parabola, parole, and palaver.
Inflected forms:
form: parables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parables
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parabling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parabled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parabled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
examples: In the New Testament the parables told by Jesus Christ convey His message, as in "The parable of the prodigal son".
Catholic homilies normally draw on at least one Biblical lecture, often parables.
gloss: To represent by parable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled.
Translations:
loquacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin loquāx, loquācis (“talkative”) + -ous.
Base: loquāx
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more loquacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most loquacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Talkative; chatty.
pos: adj
examples: On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious, or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.
"[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […]"
Translations:
Nauruan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Nauru
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Nauruan
From Nauru + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Nauruans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Nauru or of Nauruan descent.
pos: noun
examples: Landowners received royalties from the phosphate earnings, and many Nauruans were unemployed by choice.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Nauru, the Nauruan people or the Nauruan language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Tanzanian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Tanzania
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Tanzanian
From Tanzania + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Tanzanians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Tanzania or of Tanzanian descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Tanzania, the Tanzanian people or language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Wallachian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Wallachia
English -an
English Wallachian
From Wallachia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Wallachians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Walachian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Walachian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Wallachia or of Wallachian descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to Wallachia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Dominican
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of the Dominican Republic, itself a calque of Spanish República Dominicana; corresponding to Spanish dominicano.
Inflected forms:
form: Dominicans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Dominican
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Dominican
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic or a descendant thereof.
pos: noun
examples: More than 40% of Dominicans are economically vulnerable and are at risk of falling into poverty due to climate-related impacts and economic crises, according to the World Bank.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the Dominican Republic, or its people.
pos: adj
examples: And while the Dominican economy grew by 4.9% last year, high inflation rates in both 2022 (8.8%) and 2023 (4.8%) have taken a toll on the population’s quality of life.
Translations:
limb
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.
Inflected forms:
form: limbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: limbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: limbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: limbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
gloss: To supply with limbs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms ,
Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose
Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
gloss: To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.
Synonyms: delimb
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разчленявам
roman: razčlenjavam
lang: Bulgarian
word: разчленя
roman: razčlenja
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 支解
roman: zhījiě
lang: Finnish
word: karsia
lang: Finnish
word: rankoa
lang: French
word: démembrer
lang: German
word: zergliedern
lang: Ingrian
word: karsia
lang: Japanese
word: 切り放す
roman: kirihanasu
lang: Macedonian
word: обесчле́нува
roman: obesčlénuva
lang: Polish
word: usunąć gałęzie
lang: Polish
word: ścinać gałęzie
lang: Polish
word: rozczłonkowywać
lang: Portuguese
word: desmembrar
lang: Portuguese
word: desgalhar
lang: Russian
word: расчленя́ть
roman: rasčlenjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: расчлени́ть
roman: rasčlenítʹ
lang: Swedish
word: kvista
Micronesian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Micronesia
English -an
English Micronesian
From Micronesia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Micronesians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Micronesia or of Micronesian descent.
pos: noun
examples: The researchers also concluded that the genetic data showed that the Polynesians and Micronesians were most closely related to Taiwan Aborigines and East Asians.
gloss: Of, from or pertaining to Micronesia or the Micronesian people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.
Translations:
Rwandan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Rwanda-Rundi -anda
Rwanda-Rundi u Rwāndabor.
English Rwanda
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Rwandan
From Rwanda + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Rwandans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Rwandan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Rwandan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Rwanda or of Rwandan descent.
pos: noun
examples: But for so many, this city remains tied to the genocide, which saw between 800,000 and one million Rwandans murdered in a brutal tribal conflict in 1994.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Rwanda, the Rwandan people or language.
pos: adj
examples: This is known as Umuganda, which translates as “coming together in common purpose.” It’s an old Rwandan concept, which was officially revived in its current, compulsory form in 2009.
Rwanda is in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants deported from the United States, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on television late on Sunday.
Translations:
Rwandese
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Rwanda-Rundi -anda
Rwanda-Rundi u Rwāndabor.
English Rwanda
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Rwandese
From Rwanda + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: Rwandese
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Rwandese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Rwandese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Rwanda or of Rwandese descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Rwanda, the Rwandese people or language. See: Rwandan.
pos: adj
examples: In 2003, Rwanda changed its official name from "Rwandese Republic" to "Republic of Rwanda".
‘I’ve told her I am Rwandese,’ he smiled.
Translations:
insula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From Latin īnsula (“island”). Doublet of isle.
Inflected forms:
form: insulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: insulae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A block of buildings in a Roman town.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus.
pos: noun
examples: All mammals have insulas that read their body condition, Dr. Craig said.
The insula registers our physical gut feelings, including the sensation of a distended stomach and other inner states like nausea, warmth, a full bladder, and a pounding heart.
Related words: insular
insulate
insulation
isolate
isolation
peninsula
Derived words: insulostriatal
perinsular
Translations:
Niuean
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Niue
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Niuean
From Niue + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Niueans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Niue or of Niuean descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Niue, the Niuean people or their Polynesian language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bunion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From alteration of earlier bunny (“lump, swelling”), from Middle English bony, boni (“bunion, swelling”), perhaps Italian bubbone (augmented form of bugno (“beehive”)), or more likely from Lombard bugnon (“bunyon”), all three from Old French bugne, buigne, bune (“bump, knob, swelling”), from Old Norse bunga (“an elevation, bulge”) or Frankish *bungjō (“a swelling, lump, bump”), both from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), German Bunge (“swelling, tuber”).
Inflected forms:
form: bunions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bunyon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bunian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bunnion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bunnian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.
pos: noun
gloss: Hallux valgus, deviation of the big toe from its normal position towards the other toes, the prime cause for the swelling of its first joint.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
Derived words: bunionectomy
bunioned
bunionette
Translations:
Constantinopolitan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin cōnstantīnopolītānuslbor.
English Constantinopolitan
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnstantīnopolītānus.
Inflected forms:
form: Constantinopolitans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Byzantine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
architecture
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-der.
Thracian *būzasder.
Ancient Greek Βῡ́ζᾱς (Bū́zās)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)
Ancient Greek Βῡζᾰ́ντῐον (Būzắntĭon)bor.
Late Latin Bȳzantium
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Late Latin -īnus
Late Latin bȳzantīnusder.
English Byzantine
Borrowed from Late Latin bȳzantīnus, from Bȳzantium, from Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzántion). The figurative senses evoke the reputation for palace intrigue of the Byzantine imperial court.
Inflected forms:
form: more Byzantine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Byzantine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: byzantine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Byzantian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Byzantinan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Bizantian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Bizantine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
pos: adj
gloss: Belonging to the civilization of the Eastern Roman Empire between 331, when its capital was moved to Constantinople, and 1453, when that capital was conquered by the Turks and ultimately renamed Istanbul.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a style of architecture prevalent in the Eastern Empire down to 1453, marked by the round arch springing from columns or piers, the dome supported upon pendentives, capitals elaborately sculptured, mosaic or other encrustations, etc.
pos: adj
gloss: Overly complex or intricate, especially of bureaucracy.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
lowercase
often
examples: a Byzantine system of regulations
The byzantine, meandering processes of Icann are engineered in a way that avoids any dissent surfacing, all under the reassuring guise of consensus.
Those following what has been dubbed “Pestminster” may nevertheless struggle to keep up with the Byzantine internal reporting structures, the range of accusations being levied and the sheer number of MPs involved.
gloss: Devious and stealthy.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
lowercase
often
examples: It’s also important to note that this analysis deals solely with intrinsic failure, or the odds of a conspiracy being exposed intentionally or accidentally by actors involved—extrinsic analysis by non-participants would also increase the odds of detection, rendering such Byzantine cover-ups far more likely to fail.
I never went through a time when more people told me not to trust other people on an issue. Perhaps they were all right. The internal politics were byzantine, much of it played out in the media.
gloss: Of or relating to the Byzantine Rite or any of the many Eastern Orthodox churches and Greek Catholic churches that use this rite for their liturgical celebrations.
pos: adj
examples: This was the crowning incident of our visit, and I wondered with what Byzantine ritual the Anointed One fresh from the exercise of his priestly functions would be received among his women.
Translations:
Cilician
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Cilicia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Cilician
From Cilicia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Cilicians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or originating from Cilicia.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
examples: The purple Hyacinths, and fresh Costmarie, / And Saffron, sought for in Cilician soyle
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.
pos: noun
Translations:
Luxembourger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Luxembourg
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English Luxembourger
From Luxembourg + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: Luxembourgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Luxemburger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person from the independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or of Luxembourgish descent.
pos: noun
gloss: An inhabitant of the former duchy (originally county) of Luxembourg (originally Letzeburg)
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An inhabitant of the Belgian province of Luxembourg.
pos: noun
gloss: An inhabitant of the city of Luxembourg, the capital of all the above territories.
pos: noun
Synonyms: Luxembourgian
Luxembourgeois
Related words: Luxembourgish
Translations:
Luxembourgish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Luxembourg
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English Luxembourgish
From Luxembourg + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: Luxemburgish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Luxembourg or its people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or in the language of Luxembourg (derived from the Moselle Franconian group of High German dialects).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: Luxembourgeois
Translations:
Saudi
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سُعُودِيّ (suʕūdiyy), from سُعُود (suʕūd), the name of the Saud family, who rule Saudi Arabia, and the adjectival suffix ـِيّ (-iyy)., equivalent to Saud + -i.
Affixes: -i
Inflected forms:
form: Saudis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Saudi
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Saudi
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Saudi Arabia or of Saudi Arabian descent.
pos: noun
examples: The agal he wore on his head gave him away as a Saudi.
It was in that moment I connected with what Saudis had been feeling in the months since Mohammed bin Salman or MBS, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, stripped these morality guardians of their power.
gloss: From, or pertaining to Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabian people or language, or the House of Saud.
pos: adj
examples: Yet none of these has affected me as much as the moment I felt Saudi change.
Synonyms: Saudi Arabian
Translations:
Somali
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From or akin to Somali Soomaali.
Inflected forms:
form: Somali
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Somalis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group native to the Somali Peninsula; a Somali, a group of Somalis, the Somalis.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
examples: Historically, Somalis were a nomadic people herding camels, goats, and sheep. Nowadays, many if not most Somalis are urbanized people.
Authorized by the court to engage in racial profiling, masked federal agents continue to descend upon “Democrat-run” cities, subjecting Latinos and now Somalis to ongoing abuse.
gloss: The Somali ethnic group as a whole; the Somali.
pos: noun
tags: collective
in-plural
uncountable
examples: The Somali are an ethnic group of Cushitic origin indigenous to the Somali Peninsula. Their language is called Somali.
gloss: A citizen or resident from the country of Somalia.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
gloss: A person from a Somali-majority republic, state, or region, including but not limited to: the Republic of Somaliland, the Somali region of Ethiopia (often called the Ogaden, but more neutrally the Somali region), or autonomous states within Somalia's federal system such as Puntland.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
gloss: A domestic cat breed derived from the Abyssinian cat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Somalia, the Somali people or language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: bulbhead
Mali
Skinnie
Somalian
Somali
Somalicoon
Related words: Wiktionary’s coverage of Somali terms
Translations:
Somalian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Somalia
English -an
English Somalian
From Somalia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Somalian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Somalian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the Republic of Somalia in a civic or governmental context.
pos: adj
Translations:
Bermudian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Bermuda
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Bermudian
From Bermuda + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Bermewjan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Bermudan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Bermudians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bermewjan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Bermudan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Bermuda, or the Bermudian people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Personal legal status equivalent to citizenship for the country of Bermuda.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent
pos: noun
gloss: Bermuda sloop
pos: noun
Translations:
Salvadoran
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin salvātōrem
Old Spanish salvador
Spanish salvador
Spanish Salvadorbor.
▲
Latin salvātōrem
Old Galician-Portuguese salvador
Portuguese salvador
Portuguese Salvadorbor.
English Salvador
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Salvadoran
From Salvador + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Salvadorans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Salvadorean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Salvadorian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Salvadoran
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Salvadoran
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Salvadorean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Salvadorian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person from El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent.
pos: noun
examples: Under Biden, a Trump-era decision to end TPS for Salvadorans was rescinded after a group of Latino officials pleaded with the outgoing president to continue TPS for people from those countries with “meritorious cases,” citing “horrific levels of violence that surged in recent years” in Ecuador, along with the oppression of the Ortega regime that has controlled Nicaragua for decades and “political and environmental conditions” in El Salvador.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to El Salvador or the Salvadoran people.
pos: adj
examples: People will fill the plazas of the country tumultuously, like a river in the rainy season, to pay tribute to these brothers of ours who died for the sake of peace, to these brothers who were born in Spain but were more Salvadoran than their assassins, that pack of criminals with no patriotism in their hearts.
I’d been pushing some shopping carts around the grocery store’s parking lot with a coworker, a guy named Rafa, a big Salvadoran dude.
The executive order specifically named Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran MS-13 gang, citing their “campaigns of violence and terror in the United States and internationally” as threats to “the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.”
Translations:
red-hot
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more red-hot
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most red-hot
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: red hot
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: redhot
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color.
pos: adj
examples: The smith's apprentice was still wary of manipulating the red-hot metal.
The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence.
Heaped up upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chesnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.
Among this nation of necromancers there was also one who had in his veins the blood of the salamanders; for he made no scruple of sitting down to smoke his chibouc in a red-hot oven until his dinner was thoroughly roasted upon its floor.
[A] red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; […]
The cat-heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain.
gloss: Very hot.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
examples: That curry was red-hot.
gloss: Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: He really delivered a red-hot speech today.
gloss: Having very strong sex appeal.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Did you see that red-hot bikini model in today's paper?
gloss: Very fresh, exciting, and up-to-date.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Tune in at ten to catch this red-hot story!
She sits at the intersection of start-up investing and the fast-growing ecosystem of online creators, both of which are red hot.
Related words: firehot
red heat
Translations:
hackneyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hackney
English -ed
English hackneyed
From hackney + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more hackneyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hackneyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hacknied
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Repeated too often.
pos: adj
examples: The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.
gloss: Let out for hire.
pos: adj
tags: dated
Synonyms: banal
bathetic
bromidic
cheesy
clichéd
commonplace
corny
dog-eared
hackneyed
hoary
overdone
overused
overworked
pat
played out
shopworn
stale
threadbare
timeworn
tired
trite
warmed-over
well-worn
Antonyms: fresh
new
original
Related words: boring
cookie-cutter
mediocre
monotonous
unoriginal
saying
Derived words: hackneyedness
unhackneyed
Translations:
pauper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pauper (“poor”). Originally a legal term. Doublet of poor.
Inflected forms:
form: paupers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paupers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paupering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paupered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paupered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who is extremely poor.
pos: noun
examples: He has hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, and he lives like a pauper!
gloss: One living on or eligible for public charity.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a pauper of; to drive into poverty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “There’s no sense in you paupering yourself because you’re too stubborn to take my money.” ¶ “I’m not paupering myself.”
Synonyms: bankrupt
beggar
indigent
insolvent
have not
lack-all
Lazarus
pauper
penny-father
poor
Antonyms: moneybags
plutocrat
tycoon
Related words: depauperate
pauci-
vagabond
impoverished
poverty
Derived words: dispauper
pauperdom
pauperess
pauperism
pauperize
pauper's funeral
pauper's grave
Translations:
sievert
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Swedish Sievert. Named after the Swedish radiologist Rolf Sievert.
Inflected forms:
form: sieverts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radiation dose: the dose received in one hour at a distance of 1 cm from a point source of 1 mg of radium in a 0.5 mm thick platinum enclosure, which in its biological effects corresponds to several different quantities: equivalent dose, effective dose, and committed dose.
pos: noun
Translations:
tesla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, from Serbo-Croatian Tesla /Тесла.
Inflected forms:
form: teslas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tesla
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity.
pos: noun
examples: In a draft paper, REBCO wiring has been reported to produce magnetic fields over 35 Tesla; the ARC design only needs 20T fields.
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