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| ablaut |
a pattern of changes in sounds, usually vowels, that indicate variations in tense, number, person, or the like, as in "sink," "sank," and "sunk". |
| abound |
to be found or available in a large amount or number. [1/2 definitions] |
| absolute value |
the magnitude of a real number irrespective of its sign; distance of a real number from zero. [2 definitions] |
| abundant |
large in amount or number; more than enough. |
| accentual |
having a rhythm based on the number of stresses rather than the number of syllables or length of sounds, as certain poetry. [1/2 definitions] |
| accident-prone |
tending or likely to have more than the average number or rate of accidents. |
| ace |
a pilot who has downed a specified number of military aircraft. [1/7 definitions] |
| acreage |
the number of acres in an area of land. |
| addend |
a number or amount added to another to form a sum. |
| address |
the place where a person lives or works. The address has the street name and number, city, and state. [1/4 definitions] |
| a few |
a small number of things or people. |
| agreement |
in grammar, correspondence between the number, person, or grammatical gender of two syntactically connected words, esp.that of subject and verb or adjective and noun. [1/5 definitions] |
| aliquot |
in math, forming a whole number divisor of another number without a remainder. [1/3 definitions] |
| all |
the whole thing of something or every one of some kind of thing. [2/3 definitions] |
| amphibole |
any of a number of hydrous silicate minerals, such as hornblende, that mostly comprise various combinations of magnesium, calcium, sodium, iron, and aluminum. |
| -androus |
having stamens of (such) a kind or number. [1/2 definitions] |
| -andry |
the condition of having stamens of (such) a kind or number. [1/2 definitions] |
| angle1 |
the space between the lines of such a figure as measured in degrees, the number of which reflects the amount of turning that would be required to move one of the lines so that it meets and overlaps the other. [1/10 definitions] |
| aniline dye |
any of a large number of synthetic dyes, made mainly from coal-tar products. |
| antilogarithm |
in mathematics, the number that corresponds to a particular logarithm. |
| any |
an amount of something; a number of; used in questions or with not. [1/5 definitions] |
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