| abduction | (noun) the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body | - |
| abductor | (noun) a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line | Synonyms: abductor muscle |
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| (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher |
| adduct | (noun) a compound formed by an addition reaction | - |
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| adduction | (noun) (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body | - |
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| adductor | (noun) a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line | Synonyms: adductor muscle |
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| aqueduct | (noun) a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley | - |
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| auction | (noun) the public sale of something to the highest bidder | Synonyms: auction sale, vendue |
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| (noun) a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge | Synonyms: auction bridge |
| auctioneer | (noun) an agent who conducts an auction | - |
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| byproduct | (noun) a product made during the manufacture of something else | Synonyms: by-product, spin-off |
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| (noun) a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence | Synonyms: by-product |
| circumduction | (noun) a circular movement of a limb or eye | - |
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| conduct | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, doings |
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| (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
| conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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| conducting | (noun) the way of administering a business | - |
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| (noun) the direction of an orchestra or choir | - |
| conduction | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conductivity |
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| conductivity | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conduction |
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| conductor | (noun) a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: director, music director |
| (noun) the person who collects fares on a public conveyance | - |
| (noun) a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | - |
| conductress | (noun) a woman conductor | - |
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| construct | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, conception |
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| construction | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: building |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: building |
| (noun) drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | - |
| (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: structure |
| (noun) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | Synonyms: mental synthesis |
| (noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: expression, grammatical construction |
| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| constructor | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: builder |
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| deconstruction | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstructionism |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| deductible | (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
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| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| deduction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: discount, price reduction |
| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis |
| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: entailment, implication |
| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: discount |
| (noun) a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket | Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off |
| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| duct | (noun) an enclosed conduit for a fluid | - |
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| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, channel, epithelial duct |
| (noun) a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls | - |
| ductileness | (noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets | Synonyms: ductility |
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| ductility | (noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets | Synonyms: ductileness |
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| ductule | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductulus |
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| ductulus | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductule |
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| eructation | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, burping |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eruption, extravasation |
| fluctuation | (noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: wavering |
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| (noun) an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change | Synonyms: variation |
| (noun) a wave motion | - |
| fructification | (noun) organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) | - |
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| (noun) the bearing of fruit | - |
| fructose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose |
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| fructosuria | (noun) the presence of levulose is the urine | - |
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| indestructibility | (noun) the strength to resist destruction | - |
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| inductance | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductor |
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| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: induction |
| inductee | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: conscript, draftee |
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| (noun) a person inducted into an organization or social group | - |
| induction | (noun) the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | - |
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| (noun) an act that sets in motion some course of events | Synonyms: initiation, trigger |
| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: elicitation, evocation |
| (noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: initiation, installation |
| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: inductance |
| inductionism | (noun) the scientific philosophy where laws are "induced" from sets of data. | - |
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| inductor | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductance |
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| ineluctability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: unavoidability |
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| infrastructure | (noun) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | Synonyms: base |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: substructure |
| infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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| instruction | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching |
| (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, program line, statement |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: direction |
| instructions | (noun) a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it | Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions |
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| instructor | (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: teacher |
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| instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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| instructress | (noun) a woman instructor | - |
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| introduction | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: insertion, intromission |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, launching, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, origination |
| (noun) the first section of a communication | - |
| (noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: intro, presentation |
| (noun) a basic or elementary instructional text | - |
| (noun) a new proposal | - |
| introductoriness | (noun) The quality of being introducing; of giving a preview or idea of. | - |
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| liposuction | (noun) lipectomy (especially for cosmetic purposes) in which excess fatty tissue is removed from under the skin by suction | Synonyms: suction lipectomy |
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| manduction | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, mastication |
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| (noun) the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist | Synonyms: Communion, Holy Communion, sacramental manduction |
| misconduct | (noun) activity that transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: actus reus, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
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| (noun) bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf | - |
| misconstruction | (noun) an ungrammatical constituent | - |
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| (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstrual |
| nonconductor | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: dielectric, insulator |
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| obstructer | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructionist, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
| obstruction | (noun) getting in someone's way | - |
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| (noun) the act of obstructing | - |
| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstructor |
| (noun) something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted | Synonyms: obstacle |
| (noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: blockage |
| obstructionism | (noun) deliberate interference | - |
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| obstructionist | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
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| obstructor | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction |
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| (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, resister, thwarter |
| overproduction | (noun) too much production or more than expected | Synonyms: overrun |
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| oviduct | (noun) either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus | Synonyms: Fallopian tube, uterine tube |
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| oxidoreductase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes oxidation-reduction | - |
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| oxidoreduction | (noun) a reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction | Synonyms: oxidation-reduction, redox |
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| photoconduction | (noun) change in the electrical conductivity of a substance as a result of absorbing electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: photoconductivity |
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| photoconductivity | (noun) change in the electrical conductivity of a substance as a result of absorbing electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: photoconduction |
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| product | (noun) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process | Synonyms: production |
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| (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: merchandise, ware |
| (noun) a quantity obtained by multiplication | Synonyms: mathematical product |
| (noun) the set of elements common to two or more sets | Synonyms: Cartesian product, intersection |
| (noun) a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances | - |
| (noun) a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction | - |
| production | (noun) the act or process of producing something | - |
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| (noun) (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law | - |
| (noun) (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale | - |
| (noun) the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services | - |
| (noun) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process | Synonyms: product |
| (noun) a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television | - |
| (noun) a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated | - |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: output, yield |
| productiveness | (noun) the quality of being productive or having the power to produce | Synonyms: productivity |
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| productivity | (noun) the quality of being productive or having the power to produce | Synonyms: productiveness |
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| (noun) (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time | - |
| reconstruction | (noun) the activity of constructing something again | - |
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| (noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall | Synonyms: reconstructive memory |
| (noun) an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence | - |
| reductant | (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducer, reducing agent |
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| reductase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance | - |
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| reductio | (noun) (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction | Synonyms: reductio ad absurdum |
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| reduction | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, diminution, step-down |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: simplification |
| (noun) any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent | Synonyms: reducing |
| reductionism | (noun) a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components | - |
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| (noun) the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents | - |
| reductivism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, minimalism |
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| reintroduction | (noun) an act of renewed introduction | - |
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| reluctance | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition |
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| (noun) (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance) | - |
| reluctivity | (noun) (physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in it | - |
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| reproduction | (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: breeding, facts of life, procreation |
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| (noun) the act of making copies | Synonyms: replication |
| (noun) copy that is not the original; something that has been copied | Synonyms: replica, replication |
| (noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall | Synonyms: reproductive memory |
| (noun) the process of generating offspring | - |
| ruction | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, rumpus, tumult |
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| seduction | (noun) enticing someone astray from right behavior | - |
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| (noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | Synonyms: conquest |
| seductress | (noun) a woman who seduces | - |
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| semiconductor | (noun) a conductor made with semiconducting material | Synonyms: semiconductor device, semiconductor unit |
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| (noun) a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities | Synonyms: semiconducting material |
| structuralism | (noun) linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse | Synonyms: structural linguistics |
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| (noun) an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena | Synonyms: structural anthropology |
| (noun) a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals | Synonyms: structural sociology |
| structure | (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: construction |
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| (noun) the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts | - |
| (noun) a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement | Synonyms: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part |
| (noun) the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations | - |
| (noun) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships | Synonyms: social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system |
| subduction | (noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate | - |
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| substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| suction | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, sucking |
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| (noun) a force over an area produced by a pressure difference | - |
| superconductivity | (noun) the disappearance of electrical resistance at very low temperatures | - |
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| superstructure | (noun) structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck | - |
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| transduction | (noun) the process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form | - |
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| (noun) (genetics) the process of transferring genetic material from one cell to another by a plasmid or bacteriophage | - |