| accumulation | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accrual, accruement |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: aggregation, assemblage, collection |
| (noun) (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation | - |
| (noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accretion |
| accumulator | (noun) a voltaic battery that stores electric charge | Synonyms: storage battery |
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| (noun) (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register | Synonyms: accumulator register |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: collector, gatherer |
| altocumulus | (noun) a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altocumulus cloud |
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| amulet | (noun) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | Synonyms: talisman |
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| caprimulgid | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: goatsucker, nightjar |
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| cirrocumulus | (noun) a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples | Synonyms: cirrocumulus cloud |
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| cumulation | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
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| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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| cumulus | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, heap, mound, pile |
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| (noun) a globular cloud | Synonyms: cumulus cloud |
| cymule | (noun) a small cyme, generally with few flowers | - |
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| demulcent | (noun) a medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that soothes inflamed or injured skin | - |
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| dissimulation | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissembling |
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| dissimulator | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| emulation | (noun) effort to equal or surpass another | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another | - |
| (noun) ambition to equal or excel | - |
| emulator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, imitator |
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| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| emulsion | (noun) a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin | Synonyms: photographic emulsion |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids | - |
| famulus | (noun) a close attendant (as to a scholar) | - |
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| formula | (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, normal, pattern, rule |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle | - |
| (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: recipe |
| (noun) a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements | Synonyms: chemical formula |
| (noun) a liquid food for infants | - |
| formulary | (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
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| formulation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: preparation |
| gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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| mulatto | (noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent | - |
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| mulberry | (noun) sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus | - |
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| (noun) any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry | Synonyms: mulberry tree |
| mulch | (noun) a protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion | - |
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| mulct | (noun) money extracted as a penalty | Synonyms: amercement, fine |
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| mule | (noun) hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile | - |
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| (noun) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel | Synonyms: scuff |
| muleteer | (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, skinner |
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| muliebrity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: femininity |
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| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: womanhood |
| mulishness | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, stubbornness |
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| mull | (noun) a term used in Scottish names of promontories | - |
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| mullein | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers | Synonyms: flannel leaf, velvet plant |
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| muller | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: pestle, pounder |
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| (noun) a vessel in which wine is mulled | - |
| (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muser, ponderer, ruminator |
| mullet | (noun) bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin | - |
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| (noun) freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| (noun) highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| mulligan | (noun) Irish version of burgoo | Synonyms: Irish burgoo, mulligan stew |
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| mulligatawny | (noun) a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base | - |
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| mullion | (noun) a nonstructural vertical strip between the casements or panes of a window (or the panels of a screen) | - |
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| mulloway | (noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: jewfish, Sciaena antarctica |
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| multicollinearity | (noun) a case of multiple regression in which the predictor variables are themselves highly correlated | - |
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| multiculturalism | (noun) the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country | - |
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| multidimensionality | (noun) The property of having many aspects or facets. | - |
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| multifariousness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, diversity, variety |
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| multiflora | (noun) vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock | Synonyms: baby rose, Japanese rose, multiflora rose, Rosa multiflora |
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| multifunctionality | (noun) The condition of having multiple functions. | - |
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| multimedia | (noun) transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.) | Synonyms: multimedia system |
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| multinomial | (noun) a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms | Synonyms: polynomial |
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| multiple | (noun) the product of a quantity by an integer | - |
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| multiplex | (noun) a movie theater that has several different auditoriums in the same building | - |
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| (noun) communicates two or more signals over a common channel | - |
| multiplexer | (noun) a device that can interleave two or more activities | - |
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| multiplicand | (noun) the number that is multiplied by the multiplier | - |
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| multiplication | (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed | Synonyms: times |
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| (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: generation, propagation |
| (noun) a multiplicative increase | - |
| multiplicity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: numerosity, numerousness |
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| (noun) the property of being multiple | - |
| multiplier | (noun) the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied | Synonyms: multiplier factor |
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| multiprocessing | (noun) simultaneous processing by two or more processing units | Synonyms: parallel processing |
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| multiprocessor | (noun) a computer that uses two or more processing units under integrated control | - |
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| multiprogramming | (noun) the execution of two or more computer programs by a single computer | Synonyms: concurrent execution |
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| multistage | (noun) occurring in more than one stage | - |
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| multitude | (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: concourse, throng |
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| (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, masses, people, the great unwashed |
| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, pack, plurality |
| multitudinousness | (noun) a very large number (especially of people) | - |
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| multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multivalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multiversity | (noun) a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers | - |
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| multivitamin | (noun) a pill or tablet containing several vitamins | Synonyms: multivitamin pill |
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| nummulite | (noun) large fossil protozoan of the Tertiary period | - |
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| phacoemulsification | (noun) extracapsular surgery for cataracts in which ultrasonic sound breaks the cortex and nucleus of the lens into small fragments that are then vacuumed away through a small tube | - |
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| plumule | (noun) down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds | - |
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| primula | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primrose |
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| promulgation | (noun) the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice | Synonyms: proclamation |
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| (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: announcement |
| (noun) the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect | - |
| promulgator | (noun) (law) one who promulgates laws (announces a law as a way of putting it into execution) | - |
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| simulacrum | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, image |
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| (noun) an insubstantial or vague semblance | - |
| simulation | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense |
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| (noun) the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training) | - |
| (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program | Synonyms: computer simulation |
| simulator | (noun) a machine that simulates an environment for the purpose of training or research | - |
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| simulcast | (noun) a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio) | - |
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| simultaneity | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneousness |
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| simultaneousness | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneity |
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| squamule | (noun) a minute scale | - |
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| stimulant | (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: excitant, stimulant drug |
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| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulation, stimulus |
| stimulation | (noun) the act of arousing an organism to action | - |
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| (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: arousal, foreplay |
| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulant, stimulus |
| (noun) (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.) | - |
| stimulus | (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulant, stimulation |
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| surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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| tumult | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus |
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| (noun) violent agitation | Synonyms: turmoil |
| (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumultuousness, uproar |
| tumultuousness | (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumult, uproar |
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| tumulus | (noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: barrow, burial mound, grave mound |
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| yarmulka | (noun) a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) | Synonyms: yarmelke, yarmulke |
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| yarmulke | (noun) a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) | Synonyms: yarmelke, yarmulka |
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