agglomerate | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
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(noun) volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together | - |
agglomeration | (noun) the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating | - |
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(noun) a jumbled collection or mass | - |
agglomerator | (noun) a device that causes material to gather into rounded balls | - |
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boomerang | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: backfire |
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(noun) a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower | Synonyms: throw stick, throwing stick |
camera | (noun) equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) | Synonyms: photographic camera |
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(noun) television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam | Synonyms: television camera, tv camera |
cameraman | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cinematographer |
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chimera | (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimaera |
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conglomerate | (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: empire |
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(noun) a composite rock made up of particles of varying size | Synonyms: pudding stone |
conglomeration | (noun) an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass | Synonyms: conglobation |
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(noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: aggregate, congeries |
(noun) a rounded spherical form | Synonyms: conglobation |
demerara | (noun) light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyana | Synonyms: demerara sugar |
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(noun) dark rum from Guyana | Synonyms: demerara rum |
(noun) a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana | - |
diapheromera | (noun) a variety of stick insect | Synonyms: Diapheromera femorata |
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emerald | (noun) the green color of an emerald | - |
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(noun) a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone | - |
enumeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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(noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: numbering |
enumerator | (noun) someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes | Synonyms: census taker |
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ephemera | (noun) something transitory; lasting a day | - |
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ephemeral | (noun) anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form | Synonyms: ephemeron |
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ephemerality | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeralness, fleetingness |
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ephemeralness | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemerality, fleetingness |
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hemeralopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in bright light | Synonyms: day blindness |
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innumerableness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: countlessness |
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isomerase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes its substrate to an isomeric form | - |
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meralgia | (noun) pain in the thigh | - |
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numeracy | (noun) skill with numbers and mathematics | - |
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numeral | (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: number |
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(noun) a word expressing a number. | - |
numeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, reckoning, tally |
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(noun) naming numbers | - |
numerator | (noun) the dividend of a fraction | - |
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polymerase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of new DNA and RNA from an existing strand of DNA or RNA | - |
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supernumerary | (noun) a minor actor in crowd scenes | Synonyms: extra, spear carrier |
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(noun) a person serving no apparent function | - |
telomerase | (noun) an enzyme in eukaryotic cells that can add telomeres to the ends of chromosomes after they divide | - |
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