| abfarad | (noun) a capacitance unit equal to one billion farads | - |
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| aborad | (adverb) away from the mouth or oral region | - |
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| abradant | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abrader |
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| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abrasive, abrasive material |
| abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
| abrader | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abradant |
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| aggrade | (verb) build up to a level by depositing sediment | - |
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| andradite | (noun) a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black; used as gemstone | - |
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| anterograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma | - |
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| antitrade | (noun) winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics | Synonyms: antitrade wind |
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| antitrades | (noun) wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds | - |
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| astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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| atmoradiograph | (noun) a device which measures the frequency of occurrence of atmospherics. | - |
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| autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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| autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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| autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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| autostrada | (noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country | - |
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| balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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| bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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| biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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| biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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| biradial | (adjective) showing both bilateral and radial symmetry | - |
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| biradially | (adverb) in a biradial manner | - |
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| brad | (noun) a small nail | - |
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| (verb) fasten with brads | - |
| bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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| bradycardia | (noun) abnormally slow heartbeat | - |
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| camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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| centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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| charade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: masquerade |
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| (noun) a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades | - |
| charades | (noun) guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess | - |
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| coloradillo | (noun) handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil | Synonyms: Hamelia erecta, Hamelia patens, scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia |
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| comrade | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, familiar, fellow |
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| (noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: brother |
| comradeliness | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradery, comradeship |
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| comradely | (adjective) heartily friendly and congenial | Synonyms: hail-fellow-well-met, hail-fellow |
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| comradery | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradeship |
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| comradeship | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery |
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| contradance | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing |
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| (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
| contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
| contradiction | (noun) the speech act of contradicting someone | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | Synonyms: contradiction in terms |
| (noun) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas | - |
| contradictorily | (adverb) in a contradictory manner | - |
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| contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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| contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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| (adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
| (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
| (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
| (noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| corrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off |
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| cradle | (noun) a baby bed with sides and rockers | - |
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| (noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: rocker |
| (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
| (noun) birth of a person | - |
| (verb) run with the stick | - |
| (verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
| (verb) wash in a cradle | - |
| (verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
| (verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
| (verb) bring up from infancy | - |
| cradlesong | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: lullaby |
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| (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, lullaby |
| degradation | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: debasement |
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| (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, abjection |
| degrade | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: cheapen |
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| (verb) reduce the level of land, as by erosion | - |
| (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: demean, disgrace, put down, take down |
| degraded | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, devalued |
| degrader | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: debaser |
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| degrading | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: debasing |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: corrupting |
| desperado | (noun) a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) | Synonyms: desperate criminal |
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| digitigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) | - |
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| (noun) an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses | Synonyms: digitigrade mammal |
| downgrade | (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends | - |
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| (verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
| eldorado | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | Synonyms: El Dorado |
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| eradicable | (adjective) able to be eradicated or rooted out | - |
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| eradicate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| eradication | (noun) the complete destruction of every trace of something | Synonyms: obliteration |
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| eradicator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: exterminator, terminator |
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| estradiol | (noun) the most powerful female hormone that occurs naturally; synthesized and used to treat estrogen deficiency and breast cancer | Synonyms: oestradiol |
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| extradite | (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, deport |
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| extradition | (noun) the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty) | - |
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| extrados | (noun) the exterior curve of an arch | - |
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| extradural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: epidural |
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| farad | (noun) the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates | Synonyms: F |
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| forrad | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards |
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| forrader | (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forward, forwards, onward, onwards |
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| fradicin | (noun) an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery | Synonyms: Neobiotic, neomycin |
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| grad | (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: alum, graduate |
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| (noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grade |
| gradable | (adjective) capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.) | - |
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| gradate | (verb) pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another | - |
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| (verb) arrange according to grades | - |
| gradation | (noun) the act of arranging in grades | Synonyms: graduation |
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| (noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: grade |
| (noun) relative position in a graded series | Synonyms: step |
| gradational | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradatory, graduated |
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| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| grade | (noun) a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed | - |
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| (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, level |
| (noun) the gradient of a slope or road or other surface | - |
| (noun) the height of the ground on which something stands | Synonyms: ground level |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: gradation |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, form |
| (noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grad |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: level, tier |
| (verb) determine the grade of or assign a grade to | - |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: order, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (verb) level to the right gradient | - |
| graded | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: ranked, stratified |
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| grader | (noun) a judge who assigns grades to something | - |
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| gradient | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: slope |
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| (noun) a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension | - |
| grading | (noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series | Synonyms: scaling |
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| (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: marking, scoring |
| (noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: leveling |
| gradual | (adjective) proceeding in small stages | - |
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| (adjective) (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt | - |
| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass | - |
| graduality | (noun) the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages | Synonyms: gradualness |
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| gradually | (adverb) in a gradual manner | Synonyms: bit by bit, step by step |
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| gradualness | (noun) the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages | Synonyms: graduality |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual | Synonyms: gentleness |
| graduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: postgraduate |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts | - |
| (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: alum, grad |
| (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: calibrate, fine-tune |
| (verb) receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; completion of a course or training | - |
| (verb) confer an academic degree upon | - |
| graduated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: calibrated |
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| (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, gradatory |
| graduation | (noun) the act of arranging in grades | Synonyms: gradation |
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| (noun) the successful completion of a program of study | - |
| (noun) a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement | - |
| (noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement, commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation exercise |
| horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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| (noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
| (noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
| hyperadrenalism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by excessive ACTH resulting in greater than normal functioning of the adrenal gland; characterized by obesity | Synonyms: Cushing's disease |
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| hyperadrenocorticism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol | Synonyms: Cushing's syndrome |
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| ineradicable | (adjective) not able to be destroyed or rooted out | - |
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| intradepartmental | (adjective) within a department | - |
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| intradermal | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermic |
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| intradermally | (adverb) into the skin | - |
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| intradermic | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermal |
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| intrados | (noun) the interior curve of an arch | - |
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| irradiate | (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: ray |
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| (verb) cast rays of light upon | - |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: enlighten |
| irradiation | (noun) (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance | Synonyms: actinotherapy, radiation, radiation therapy, radiotherapy |
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| (noun) the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background | - |
| (noun) (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus | - |
| (noun) (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex | - |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) the condition of being exposed to radiation | - |
| masquerade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: charade |
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| (noun) a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party | Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party |
| (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| masquerader | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquer |
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| microfarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one millionth of a farad | - |
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