| science | (noun) a particular branch of scientific knowledge | Synonyms: scientific discipline |
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| (noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: skill |
| senescence | (noun) the property characteristic of old age | Synonyms: agedness |
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| (noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
| sentence | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, conviction, judgment of conviction |
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| (noun) a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language | - |
| (noun) the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned | Synonyms: prison term, time |
| (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: condemn, doom |
| sentience | (noun) the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | - |
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| (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency |
| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: awareness |
| sequence | (noun) the action of following in order | Synonyms: succession |
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| (noun) film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie | Synonyms: episode |
| (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, succession, successiveness |
| (noun) several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys | - |
| (noun) serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern | - |
| (verb) arrange in a sequence | - |
| (verb) determine the order of constituents in | - |
| sequencer | (noun) computer hardware that sorts data or programs into a predetermined sequence | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) an apparatus that can determine the sequence of monomers in a polymer | Synonyms: sequenator |
| silence | (noun) the absence of sound | Synonyms: quiet |
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| (noun) a refusal to speak when expected | Synonyms: muteness |
| (noun) the trait of keeping things secret | Synonyms: secrecy, secretiveness |
| (noun) the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking) | - |
| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, still |
| (verb) keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure | - |
| silenced | (adjective) reduced to silence | - |
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| silencer | (noun) a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise | Synonyms: muffler |
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| (noun) short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing | - |
| sixpence | (noun) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 | Synonyms: tanner |
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| somnolence | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, sleepiness |
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| stridence | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: shrillness, stridency |
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| submergence | (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submerging, submersion |
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| subsequence | (noun) following in time | Synonyms: posteriority, subsequentness |
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| (noun) something that follows something else | Synonyms: sequel |
| subservience | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness | Synonyms: obsequiousness, servility |
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| (noun) the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan | - |
| (noun) in a subservient state | Synonyms: subservientness |
| subsidence | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: settling, subsiding |
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| (noun) the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it | Synonyms: cave in |
| (noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remission, remittal |
| subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | - |
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| (noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance | - |
| (noun) a means of surviving | - |
| succulence | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulency |
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| superintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: hyperintelligence |
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| superintendence | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, supervising, supervision |
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| teleconference | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconferencing |
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| telencephalon | (noun) the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus | - |
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| tenpence | (noun) a decimal coin worth ten pennies | - |
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| thalmencephalon | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, diencephalon, interbrain |
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| thence | (adverb) (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result | Synonyms: hence, so, therefore, thus |
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| (adverb) from that place or from there | Synonyms: therefrom |
| (adverb) from that circumstance or source | Synonyms: therefrom, thereof |
| thenceforth | (adverb) from that time on | Synonyms: thereafter |
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| threepence | (noun) former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies | - |
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| totipotence | (noun) the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part | Synonyms: totipotency |
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| transcendence | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendency |
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| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendency |
| transference | (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst | - |
| transience | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transiency, transitoriness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, briefness |
| translucence | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucency |
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| transparence | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparency, transparentness |
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| (noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparency |
| truculence | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculency |
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| tumescence | (noun) tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues | - |
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| tuppence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: twopence |
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| turbulence | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulency |
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| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, upheaval |
| (noun) instability in the atmosphere | - |
| twopence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: tuppence |
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| unfenced | (adjective) not enclosed by a fence | - |
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| uninfluenced | (adjective) not influenced or affected | Synonyms: unswayed, untouched |
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| unlicenced | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unaccredited, unlicensed |
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| unsilenced | (adjective) not silenced | - |
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| valence | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valency |
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| (noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valency |
| vehemence | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, violence, wildness |
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| (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: emphasis |
| violence | (noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | Synonyms: force |
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| (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness |
| (noun) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. | - |
| virulence | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulency |
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| (noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulency |
| whence | (adverb) from what place, source, or cause | - |
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