One-Letter Words A Dictionary 3

... Millikan in 1917, 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 ... negative O. 30 . n. (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....

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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 ... Ekakkharakosa. It may have taken 30 0 years to bridge the gap, but I like to think that Saddhammakitti’s tradition lives on in my own dictionary of one- letter words. xiii AN ENTI...

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... shape of an A. 32 . n. A- frame: a triangular supporting frame; a trian- gular, all- roof building. A- frame enthusiasts in the 1950s and 1960s were cor- rect in asserting that the form had an ancient ... 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. —Ameri - can Medic...

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... 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 another at 45 degrees.” ... triangle, turning on a pivot at its apex, and used as a bell crank to change the direction of a main pump rod.” —Dr. John Burkardt 35 . n. V roof: a gable or peaked roof. They a...

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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...

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... . 37 . n. (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 (although ... fatty fish such as herring, mackerel, and salmon. —American Medical Association 29. n. (biology) Aspartate, an amino acid. 30 . n. A layer of the ionosphere, as in the “D layer.” [T...

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... 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 literature) ... 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...

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... 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 candlepower ... 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...

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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” ... (chalk). —Walter Alvarez, T. Rex and the Crater of Doom 21. n. (astronomy) A class of stars in between yellow and red. BALLS AND BOULDERS 22. n. In baseball, a strikeout. 23. n. A...

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... With a 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 . ... or after N. The alphabet, a pillar, a solace and a certainty since kindergarten, had suddenly deserted him. He stood, bewildered and staring, as if he’d suffered a crisis of faith. Doe...

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