| braincase | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: brainpan, cranium |
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| brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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| bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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| captaincy | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captainship |
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| chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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| chaplaincy | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplainship |
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| chieftaincy | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftainship |
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| chincapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chinkapin, chinquapin |
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| chinch | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, bedbug, Cimex lectularius |
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| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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| chinchilla | (noun) small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur | Synonyms: Chinchilla laniger |
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| (noun) a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton | - |
| (noun) the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla | - |
| chinchillon | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: Lagostomus maximus, viscacha |
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| chinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: cinchona |
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| cinch | (noun) a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps | - |
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| (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
| (noun) stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place | Synonyms: girth |
| cinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: chinchona |
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| (noun) medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine | Synonyms: cinchona bark, Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark |
| cinchonine | (noun) an alkaloid derivative of the bark of cinchona trees that is used as an antimalarial drug | - |
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| cincture | (noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: girdle, sash, waistband, waistcloth |
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| clinch | (noun) (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily | - |
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| (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: hug, squeeze |
| (noun) the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet | - |
| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clench |
| (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clamp |
| clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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| (noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
| coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction |
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| (noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space | - |
| (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: happenstance |
| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| convincingness | (noun) the power of argument or evidence to cause belief | - |
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| cunnilinctus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilingus |
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| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| disinclination | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike | - |
| distinction | (noun) a distinguishing difference between similar things or people | - |
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| (noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: differentiation |
| (noun) an honor awarded to someone in recognition of achievement or superiority | - |
| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: eminence, note, preeminence |
| distinctiveness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: disparateness |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: peculiarity, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| distinctness | (noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: sharpness |
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| (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: otherness, separateness |
| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, separateness, severalty |
| extinction | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinguishing, quenching |
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| (noun) a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus | Synonyms: experimental extinction |
| (noun) complete annihilation | Synonyms: extermination |
| (noun) the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation | - |
| (noun) no longer in existence | Synonyms: defunctness |
| (noun) no longer active; extinguished | - |
| finch | (noun) any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds | - |
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| flinch | (noun) a reflex response to sudden pain | Synonyms: wince |
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| frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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| goldfinch | (noun) small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings | Synonyms: Carduelis carduelis |
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| (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird |
| grassfinch | (noun) usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: grass finch |
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| hawfinch | (noun) a common large finch of Eurasia | Synonyms: Coccothraustes coccothraustes |
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| histoincompatibility | (noun) incompatibility in which one person's tissue cannot be transplanted to another person | - |
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| incalescence | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: calefaction |
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| incandescence | (noun) light from heat | - |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: glow |
| incantation | (noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: conjuration |
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| incapability | (noun) the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: incapableness |
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| (noun) lack of potential for development | Synonyms: incapableness |
| incapableness | (noun) the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: incapability |
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| (noun) lack of potential for development | Synonyms: incapability |
| incapacity | (noun) lack of physical or natural qualifications | - |
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| (noun) lack of intellectual power | - |
| incarceration | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, imprisonment |
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| incarnation | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: personification |
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| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, embodiment |
| (noun) time passed in a particular bodily form | - |
| incasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: encasement |
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| incaution | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | Synonyms: incautiousness |
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| incautiousness | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | Synonyms: incaution |
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| incendiarism | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: arson, fire-raising |
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| incendiary | (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: firebomb, incendiary bomb |
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| (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: arsonist, firebug |
| incense | (noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned | - |
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| (noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned | - |
| incentive | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: inducement, motivator |
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| (noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: bonus |
| inception | (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: origin, origination |
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| incertitude | (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, uncertainty |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| incessantness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy |
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| incest | (noun) sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child) | - |
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| inch | (noun) a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot | Synonyms: in |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for advertising space | Synonyms: column inch |
| inchoative | (noun) aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb | Synonyms: inchoative aspect |
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| inchworm | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: looper, measuring worm |
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| incidence | (noun) the striking of a light beam on a surface | - |
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| (noun) the relative frequency of occurrence of something | Synonyms: relative incidence |
| incident | (noun) a single distinct event | - |
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| (noun) a public disturbance | - |
| incidental | (noun) an item that is incidental | - |
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| (noun) (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified | Synonyms: incidental expense, minor expense |
| incienso | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, brittlebush, Encelia farinosa |
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| incineration | (noun) the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes | - |
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| incinerator | (noun) a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse) | - |
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| incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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| incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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| incision | (noun) the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) | Synonyms: section, surgical incision |
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| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, prick, scratch, slit |
| incisiveness | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: trenchancy |
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| incisor | (noun) a tooth for cutting or gnawing; located in the front of the mouth in both jaws | - |
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| incisura | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisure |
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| incisure | (noun) (anatomy) a notch or small hollow | Synonyms: incisura |
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| incitation | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitement, provocation |
| incitement | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitation |
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| (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: exhortation |
| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: provocation |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, provocation |
| inciter | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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| incivility | (noun) deliberate discourtesy | - |
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| inclemency | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
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| (noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclementness |
| inclementness | (noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclemency |
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| inclination | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclining |
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| (noun) a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect | Synonyms: tendency |
| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: lean, leaning, list, tilt |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: disposition, tendency |
| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking | - |
| (noun) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | Synonyms: angle of dip, dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination |
| (noun) (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) | Synonyms: angle of inclination |
| (noun) (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees | Synonyms: inclination of an orbit |
| incline | (noun) an inclined surface connecting two levels | Synonyms: ramp |
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| (noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: side, slope |
| inclining | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclination |
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| inclinometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane) | Synonyms: dip circle |
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| (noun) an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon | - |
| (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: clinometer |
| inclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, envelopment |
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| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: enclosure |
| inclusion | (noun) the act of including | - |
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| (noun) any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases) | Synonyms: cellular inclusion, inclusion body |
| (noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: comprehension |
| (noun) the state of being included | - |
| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
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| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
| incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
| income | (noun) the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time | - |
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| incoming | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entrance, entry, ingress |
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| incommodiousness | (noun) an inconvenient discomfort | Synonyms: inconvenience |
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| incommutability | (noun) the quality of being not interchangeable | - |
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| incomparability | (noun) The quality of being so much better than another as to be beyond comparison. | - |
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| (noun) The condition of not being able to be compared. | - |
| incompatibility | (noun) the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
| (noun) (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue) | - |
| incompetence | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetency |
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| (noun) inability of a part or organ to function properly | - |
| incompetency | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetence |
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| incompetent | (noun) someone who is not competent to take effective action | Synonyms: incompetent person |
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| incompleteness | (noun) the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect | Synonyms: rawness |
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| incomprehensibility | (noun) the quality of being incomprehensible | - |
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| incomprehension | (noun) an inability to understand | - |
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| incompressibility | (noun) the property of being incompressible | - |
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