altazimuth | (noun) an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation | - |
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azimuth | (noun) the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian | Synonyms: AZ |
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bismuth | (noun) a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals | Synonyms: atomic number 83, Bi |
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commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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(noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
commutation | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commuting |
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(noun) (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law | Synonyms: re-sentencing |
(noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: exchange, substitution |
(noun) a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one | - |
commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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commute | (noun) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work | - |
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commuter | (noun) a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another | Synonyms: commuter train |
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(noun) someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city | - |
commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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gamut | (noun) a complete extent or range: | - |
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(noun) the entire scale of musical notes | - |
gomuti | (noun) Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Arenga pinnata, gomuti palm, sugar palm |
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immutability | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutableness |
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immutableness | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutability |
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incommutability | (noun) the quality of being not interchangeable | - |
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malamute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malemute |
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malemute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malamute |
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mutability | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutableness |
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mutableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutability |
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mutagen | (noun) any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation | - |
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mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
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mutant | (noun) an animal that has undergone mutation | - |
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(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutation, sport, variation |
mutation | (noun) (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism | Synonyms: chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation |
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(noun) a change or alteration in form or qualities | - |
(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, sport, variation |
mutchkin | (noun) a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint | - |
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mute | (noun) a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument | - |
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(noun) a deaf person who is unable to speak | Synonyms: deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute |
muteness | (noun) a refusal to speak when expected | Synonyms: silence |
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(noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: mutism |
mutilation | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, disfigurement |
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(noun) an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part | - |
mutilator | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mangler |
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mutineer | (noun) someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers) | - |
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mutiny | (noun) open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers) | - |
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mutisia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Mutisia | - |
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mutism | (noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: muteness |
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muton | (noun) the smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur | - |
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mutt | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mongrel |
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mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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(noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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(noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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mutualism | (noun) the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other | Synonyms: symbiosis |
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mutuality | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, interdependency |
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(noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutualness |
mutualness | (noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutuality |
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parimutuel | (noun) betting where winners share the total amount wagered | - |
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permutability | (noun) ability to change sequence | Synonyms: permutableness, transposability |
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permutableness | (noun) ability to change sequence | Synonyms: permutability, transposability |
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permutation | (noun) complete change in character or condition | - |
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(noun) the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements | - |
(noun) act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group | - |
(noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: replacement, substitution, switch, transposition |
smut | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, pornography |
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(noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism |
(noun) any fungus of the order Ustilaginales | Synonyms: smut fungus |
(noun) destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores | - |
(noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot |
smuttiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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(noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: sootiness |
telecommuting | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: teleworking |
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transmutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: commutability |
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transmutation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transubstantiation |
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(noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transformation |
(noun) (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment) | - |