| dial | (noun) the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours | - |
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| (noun) a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called | Synonyms: telephone dial |
| (noun) the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments | - |
| (noun) the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning | - |
| (verb) choose by means of a dial | - |
| (verb) operate a dial to select a telephone number | - |
| diaphysial | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphyseal |
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| dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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| (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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| (adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
| (noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | Synonyms: differential gear |
| (noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things | - |
| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derivative, derived function, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| diluvial | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvian |
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| doctorial | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctoral |
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| dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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| editorial | (adjective) of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an editor | - |
| (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
| endometrial | (adjective) of or relating to the endometrium | - |
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| endothelial | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the endothelium | - |
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| entrepreneurial | (adjective) of or relating to an entrepreneur | - |
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| (adjective) willing to take risks in order to make a profit | - |
| eparchial | (adjective) of or relating to an eparchy | - |
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| epiphysial | (adjective) relating to the epiphysis of a bone | Synonyms: epiphyseal |
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| epithelial | (adjective) of or belonging to the epithelium | Synonyms: epithelioid |
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| equatorial | (adjective) of or existing at or near the geographic equator | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or at an equator | - |
| (noun) a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it | - |
| equinoctial | (adjective) relating to an equinox (when the lengths of night and day are equal) | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the vicinity of the equator | - |
| (noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles | Synonyms: celestial equator, equinoctial circle, equinoctial line |
| especial | (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: exceptional, particular, special |
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| espial | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, detection, spotting, spying |
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| essential | (adjective) basic and fundamental | - |
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| (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: substantive |
| (adjective) being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc | - |
| (adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, crucial, of the essence |
| (adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: indispensable |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
| estuarial | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarine |
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| evidential | (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidentiary |
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| existential | (adjective) relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) | - |
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| (adjective) of or as conceived by existentialism | - |
| (adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: experiential |
| experiential | (adjective) relating to or resulting from experience | - |
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| (adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: existential |
| exponential | (adjective) of or involving exponents | - |
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| (noun) a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent | Synonyms: exponential function |
| exterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: extraterritorial |
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| extrajudicial | (adjective) beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted | - |
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| extraterrestrial | (adjective) originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: alien, extraterrestrial being |
| extraterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: exterritorial |
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| exuvial | (adjective) of or relating to the cast-off skins or cuticles of various animals | - |
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| facial | (adjective) of or concerning the face | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object | - |
| (noun) care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams | - |
| (noun) cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles | Synonyms: facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve |
| factorial | (adjective) of or relating to factorials | - |
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| (noun) the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer | - |
| familial | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of a family | - |
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| (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
| ferial | (adjective) of or relating to or being a feria | - |
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| fiducial | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) | Synonyms: fiduciary |
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| (adjective) used as a fixed standard of reference for comparison or measurement | - |
| (adjective) based on trust | - |
| filarial | (adjective) related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria | - |
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| filial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring | - |
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| (adjective) designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation | - |
| financial | (adjective) involving financial matters | Synonyms: fiscal |
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| finial | (noun) an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis | - |
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| fluvial | (adjective) of or relating to or happening in a river | - |
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| fossorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for digging | - |
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| gavial | (noun) large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout | Synonyms: Gavialis gangeticus |
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| genial | (adjective) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: mental |
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| (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: affable, amiable, cordial |
| (adjective) agreeable, conducive to comfort | Synonyms: kind |
| gerundial | (adjective) relating to or like a gerund | - |
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| glacial | (adjective) relating to or derived from a glacier | - |
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| (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, icy, polar |
| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, icy, wintry |
| gladiatorial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat | - |
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| glial | (adjective) of or relating to neuroglia | - |
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| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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| gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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| hypophysial | (adjective) of or relating to the hypophysis | Synonyms: hypophyseal |
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| immaterial | (adjective) not consisting of matter | Synonyms: nonmaterial |
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| (adjective) of no importance or relevance especially to a law case | - |
| (adjective) without material form or substance | Synonyms: incorporeal |
| (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, impertinent, orthogonal |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other | Synonyms: indifferent |
| immemorial | (adjective) long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history | - |
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| impartial | (adjective) showing lack of favoritism | - |
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| (adjective) free from undue bias or preconceived opinions | Synonyms: unprejudiced |
| imperial | (adjective) befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or associated with an empire | - |
| (adjective) of or belonging to the British Imperial System of weights and measures | - |
| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: majestic, purple, regal, royal |
| (noun) a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach | - |
| (noun) a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III | Synonyms: imperial beard |
| inconsequential | (adjective) not following logically as a consequence | - |
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| (adjective) lacking worth or importance | Synonyms: inconsequent |
| indusial | (adjective) of or relating to or being an indusium | - |
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| industrial | (adjective) having highly developed industries | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from industry | - |
| (adjective) employed in industry | - |
| (adjective) suitable to stand up to hard wear | - |
| inertial | (adjective) of or relating to inertia | - |
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| inessential | (adjective) not basic or fundamental | Synonyms: unessential |
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| (adjective) not absolutely necessary | - |
| (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: nonessential |
| inferential | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference | Synonyms: illative |
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| (adjective) derived or capable of being derived by inference | - |
| (adjective) based on interpretation; not directly expressed | - |
| (adjective) of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion | - |
| (adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference | Synonyms: illative |
| influential | (adjective) having or exercising influence or power | - |
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| infomercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: informercial |
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| informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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| initial | (adjective) occurring at the beginning | - |
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| (noun) the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) | - |
| (verb) mark with one's initials | - |
| inquisitorial | (adjective) especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge | - |
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| (adjective) having the authority to conduct official investigations | - |
| (adjective) marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor | - |
| insubstantial | (adjective) lacking material form or substance; unreal | Synonyms: unreal, unsubstantial |
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| (adjective) lacking in nutritive value | - |
| (adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: flimsy |
| interfacial | (adjective) relating to or situated at an interface | - |
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| interracial | (adjective) involving or composed of different races | Synonyms: mixed |
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| (adjective) between races | - |
| interstitial | (adjective) of or relating to interstices | - |
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| intracranial | (adjective) within the skull | - |
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| intrasentential | (adjective) of or relating to constituents within a sentence | - |
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| jovial | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful |
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| judicial | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: juridic, juridical |
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| (adjective) belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge | - |
| (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice | - |
| jurisprudential | (adjective) relating to the science or philosophy of law or a system of laws | - |
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| labial | (adjective) relating to or near the female labium | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the lips of the mouth | - |
| (noun) a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips | Synonyms: labial consonant |
| magisterial | (adjective) of or relating to a magistrate | - |
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| (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, imposing |
| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, peremptory |
| malarial | (adjective) of or infected by or resembling malaria | - |
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| managerial | (adjective) of or relating to the function or responsibility or activity of management | - |
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| mandibulofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the lower jaw and face | - |
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| manorial | (adjective) of or relating to or based on the manor | - |
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| marsupial | (adjective) of or relating to the marsupials | - |
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| (noun) mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried | Synonyms: pouched mammal |
| martial | (adjective) of or relating to the armed forces | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: warlike |
| (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: soldierlike, soldierly, warriorlike |
| material | (adjective) derived from or composed of matter | - |
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| (adjective) directly relevant to a matter especially a law case | - |
| (adjective) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary | Synonyms: real, substantial |
| (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: corporeal |
| (adjective) concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being | - |
| (adjective) concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests | - |
| (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, fabric, textile |
| (noun) things needed for doing or making something | - |
| (noun) information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form | - |
| (noun) a person judged suitable for admission or employment | - |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: stuff |
| matrimonial | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: marital, married |
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| maxillofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla) | - |
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| medial | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: median |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: median |
| mediatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator | - |
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| memorial | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: monument |
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| (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, remembrance |
| (noun) a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority | - |
| menial | (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: humble, lowly |
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| (noun) a domestic servant | - |
| mercurial | (adjective) relating to or containing or caused by mercury | - |
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| (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, quicksilver |
| mesial | (adjective) being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body | - |
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| microbial | (adjective) of or involving or caused by or being microbes | Synonyms: microbic |
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| millennial | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennian |
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| ministerial | (adjective) of or relating to a government minister or ministry | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office | - |
| mistrial | (noun) a trial that is invalid or inconclusive | - |
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| motorial | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: efferent |
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| multifactorial | (adjective) involving or depending on several factors or causes (especially pertaining to a condition or disease resulting from the interaction of many genes) | - |
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| multinomial | (adjective) having the character of a polynomial | Synonyms: polynomial |
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| (noun) a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms | Synonyms: polynomial |
| multiracial | (adjective) made up of or involving or acting on behalf of various races | - |
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| myocardial | (adjective) of or relating to the myocardium | - |
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| narial | (adjective) of or relating to or near the nares | - |
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