One-Letter Words A Dictionary 1

... shape of an A. 32. n. A- frame: a triangular supporting frame; a trian- gular, all- roof building. A- frame enthusiasts in the 19 50s and 19 60s were cor- rect in asserting that the form had an ancient ... herring, and oysters), lean meats, poultry, cheese, and eggs are also good sources. The only known plant sources are yeast, alfalfa, and two Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu. —Am...

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... and it’s a rating for an adult movie. X is a power of magnification, an axis on a graph, and a female chromosome. It is a multiplication operator, a letter of the alphabet, and an arbitrary point ... when a Buddhist lexicographer named Saddhammakitti enumerated Pali words of one letter in a work entitled Ekakkharakosa. It may have taken 300 years to bridge the gap, but I like...

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... are arranged in a V shape (e.g., V- 6 or V- 8). Cadillac anticipated the advantages of the V- type engine back in 19 14 and has built no other type since. —R. M. Clarke, Cadillac Automobiles 19 49 19 59 ... mirror glass, and a flying- V aerial on the back. Very cyberpunk. —Ian McDonald, Evolution’s Shore 32. n. V- beam radar: a height- finding radar that emits a vertical beam and anoth...

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... consonant Y means “awareness.” —Joseph E. Rael, Tracks of Dancing Light: A Native American Approach to Understand - ing Your Name 31. n. The twenty- fifth letter of the alphabet. Y’s career as a member ... which maximize surface area for heat dissipation. The three fins form a Y- shaped cross- section. FOREIGN MEANINGS 44. conj. (Spanish) And, as in Maria y Juan, “Maria and Juan.” FACTS A...

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... was roasting. —Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals 20. n. A grade in school indicating “average.” 21. n. One graded with a C. A Yale University president some years ago gave ... (electronics) A battery, as in “C supply.” 38. n. A high- level programming language. Programmers based the C programming language on an early programming language by the name of B (althou...

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... Millikan in 19 17, was later refined through the discovery of the relationship between the Avogadro’s constant N and the Faraday constant F. 35. n. (biology) Glutamate, an amino acid. 36. n. A layer ... (mathematics) The natural number e, used as the base for natural logarithms and with applica - tions in problems of population growth and radio- active decay. 31. n. The heaviest weight of s...

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... dairy products, fish, and tomatoes. —Ameri- can Medical Association And it doesn’t really matter, anyway, because we’ll soon fatten him up again. All we’ll have to do is give him a triple dosage ... that was like a T, but now ’tis made an H.” —William Shake - speare, Antony and Cleopatra, IV.vii.8. There is a pun here on ache, which in Shakespeare’s day was pronounced aitch. 3. (in liter...

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... is I- shaped. 30. n. I ring: a metal band encircling a metal drum. 31. n. I formation: “an offensive football play in which the quarterback, a half back, the full back, and the tail back line ... universal affi rmative A, the universal negative E, the par - ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O. 37. n. A unit vector parallel to the x- axis. 38. n. Candlepower. The term...

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... 19 . n. (mathematics) In linear algebra, a matrix in which only zeros appear above the diagonal. L is a lower triangular matrix. —Marie A. Vitulli, A Brief History of Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory” ... Johnny spun to face a bookcase of art criticism and wondered desperately if K came before or after K 91 N. The alphabet, a pillar, a solace and a certainty since kindergarten...

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... line above it, a Roman numeral for 1, 000,000. 16 . n. A computer programming language. M is a procedural, general purpose language with well- developed database handling capabilities . . . . M 11 1 ... (particularly the dark- green ones); organ meats, whole- wheat products, legumes, and mushrooms. —American Medical Association SCIENTIFIC MATTERS 14 . n. A Roman numeral for 1, 00...

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