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a person who is frequently in the company of, associates with, or accompanies another: my son and his two companions.
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a person employed to accompany, assist, or live with another in the capacity of a helpful friend.
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a mate or match for something: White wine is the usual companion of fish.
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a handbook or guide: a bird watcher's companion.
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a member of the lowest rank in an order of knighthood or of a grade in an order
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to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
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to cooperate, usually willingly, with an enemy nation, especially with an enemy occupying one's country: He collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.
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capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
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susceptible of modification or adaptation; adaptable: a flexible schedule.
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willing or disposed to yield; pliable: a flexible personality.
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a flexible substance or material, as rubber or leather
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the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
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an image; representation; counterpart.
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a fixing of the thoughts on something; careful consideration.
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a thought occurring in consideration or meditation.
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an unfavorable remark or observation.
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happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
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incurred casually and in addition to the regular or main amount: incidental expenses.
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likely to happen or naturally appertaining (usually followed by to ).
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something incidental, as a circumstance.
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incidentals, minor expenses.
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Biochemistry . any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
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Pharmacology . a synthetic substance used in medicine to act like such a compound when introduced into the body.
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Botany . Also called phytohormone. any of various plant compounds, as auxin or gibberellin, that control growth and differentiation of plant tissue.
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the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll. |
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a picture produced by photography.
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to take a photograph of.
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to practice photography.
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to be photographed or be suitable for being photographed in some specified way: The children photograph well
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a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
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the quality or state of being flat, dull, or trite: the platitude of most political oratory.
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size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
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great importance or consequence: affairs of magnitude.
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greatness of size or amount.
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moral greatness: magnitude of mind.
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adjective
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consisting of, indicating, or involving two.
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Mathematics .
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of or pertaining to a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2. The decimal number 58 appears as 111010 in binary notation, since 58 = 1 × 2 5 + 1 × 2 4 + 1 × 2 3 + 0 × 2 2 + 1 × 2 1 + 0 × 2 0 .
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of or pertaining to the digits or numbers used in binary notation.
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of or pertaining to a binary system.
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(of an operation) assigning a third quantity to two given quantities, as in the addition of two numbers.
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Chemistry . noting a compound containing only two elements or groups, as sodium chloride, methyl bromide, or methyl hydroxide.
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Metallurgy . (of an alloy) having two principal constituents.
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a whole composed of two.
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Astronomy , binary star.
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Also called binary number. Mathematics . a number expressed in the binary system of notation.
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Usually, binoculars. Also called pair of binoculars, prism binoculars. an optical device, providing good depth effect, for use with both eyes, consisting of two small telescopes fitted together side by side, each telescope having two prisms between the eyepiece and objective for erecting the image.
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involving both eyes: binocular vision.
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verb (used with object), cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing.
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to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
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to describe by labeling or giving a name to; characterize.
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verb (used with object), cus·tom·ized, cus·tom·iz·ing.
to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile. |
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adjective
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different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
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composed of parts of different kinds; having widely dissimilar elements or constituents: The party was attended by a heterogeneous group of artists, politicians, and social climbers.
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Chemistry . (of a mixture) composed of different substances or the same substance in different phases, as solid ice and liquid water.
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adjective
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not in accordance with established or accepted doctrines or opinions, especially in theology; unorthodox.
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holding unorthodox doctrines or opinions
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adjective
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composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
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of the same kind or nature; essentially alike.
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Mathematics .
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having a common property throughout: a homogeneous solid figure.
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having all terms of the same degree: a homogeneous equation.
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relating to a function of several variables that becomes multiplied by some power of a constant when each variable is multiplied by that constant: x 2 y 3 is a homogeneous expression of degree 5.
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relating to a differential equation in which a linear combination of derivatives is set equal to zero.
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Phonetics . a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
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a written element that represents the same spoken unit as another, as ks, a homophone of x in English.
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Phonetics . a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
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a written element that represents the same spoken unit as another, as ks, a homophone of x in English.
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verb (used with object)
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to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
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to speak contrary to the assertions of: to contradict oneself.
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(of an action or event) to imply a denial of: His way of life contradicts his stated principles.
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Obsolete . to speak or declare against; oppose.
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to utter a contrary statement.
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verb (used with object)
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to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
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to speak contrary to the assertions of: to contradict oneself.
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(of an action or event) to imply a denial of: His way of life contradicts his stated principles.
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Obsolete . to speak or declare against; oppose.
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a projecting or protruding part.
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the state or fact of jutting out or protruding.
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a causing to jut or protrude.
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the act, process, or result of projecting.
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Cartography . a systematic construction of lines drawn on a plane surface representative of and corresponding to the meridians and parallels of the curved surface of the earth or celestial sphere.
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noun
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an act or instance of interrupting.
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the state of being interrupted.
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something that interrupts.
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cessation; intermission.
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adjective
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guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
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debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil: a corrupt society.
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made inferior by errors or alterations, as a text.
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a handgun having a revolving chambered cylinder for holding a number of cartridges, which may be discharged in succession without reloading.
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a person or thing that revolves.
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of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
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radically new or innovative; outside or beyond established procedure, principles, etc.: a revolutionary discovery.
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( initial capital letter ) of or pertaining to the american revolution or to the period contemporaneous with it in U.S. history: Revolutionary heroes; Revolutionary weapons.
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movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
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Music.
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a passing from one key to another; modulation.
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a brief modulation; a modulation used in passing.
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a sudden, unprepared modulation.
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a passage from one scene to another by sound effects, music, etc., as in a television program, theatrical production, or the like.
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to make a transition: He had difficulty transitioning from enlisted man to officer
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adjective
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Grammar . having the nature of a transitive verb.
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characterized by or involving transition; transitional; intermediate.
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passing over to or affecting something else; transeunt.
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Mathematics . noting a relation in which one element in relation to a second element and the second in relation to a third element implies the first element is in relation to the third element, as the relation “less than or equal to.”
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Grammar , transitive verb.
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adjective
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preceding; prior: an antecedent event.
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a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc.
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antecedents.
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the history, events, characteristics, etc., of one's earlier life: Little is known about his birth and antecedents.
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Grammar . a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Jane is the antecedent of she and glove is the antecedent of it.
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Mathematics .
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the first term of a ratio; the first or third term of a proportion.
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the first of two vectors in a dyad.
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Logic. the conditional element in a proposition, as “Caesar conquered Gaul,” in “If Caesar conquered Gaul, he was a great general.”
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verb (used without object), se·ced·ed, se·ced·ing.
to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc. |
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