| allotment | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| (noun) a share set aside for a specific purpose | Synonyms: allocation |
| allotrope | (noun) a structurally different form of an element | - |
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| allotropism | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropy |
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| allotropy | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropism |
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| ballot | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: balloting, vote, voting |
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| (noun) a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting | - |
| balloting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, vote, voting |
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| ballottement | (noun) a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus) | - |
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| collotype | (noun) a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors | Synonyms: collotype printing, photogelatin process |
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| guillotine | (noun) instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people | - |
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| (noun) closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill | Synonyms: closure by compartment |
| maillot | (noun) tights for dancers or gymnasts | - |
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| (noun) a woman's one-piece bathing suit | Synonyms: tank suit |
| pollotarianism | (noun) the practice of following a diet that includes chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals. | - |
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| reallotment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reapportionment |
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| shallot | (noun) small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning | - |
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| (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, eschalot, multiplier onion |
| (noun) aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion | - |