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  • 31Wolter telescope — A Wolter telescope is a telescope for X rays using only grazing incidence optics. Visible light telescopes are built with lenses or parabolic mirrors. Neither works well for X rays. Lenses for visible light are made of a transparent material with …

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  • 32glance — glance1 /glans, glahns/, v., glanced, glancing, n. v.i. 1. to look quickly or briefly. 2. to gleam or flash: a silver brooch glancing in the sunlight. 3. to strike a surface or object obliquely, esp. so as to bounce off at an angle (often fol. by …

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  • 33Joelle Wallach — (* 29. Juni 1946 in New York City) ist eine US amerikanische Komponistin und Musikpädagogin. Wallach wuchs in Marokko auf. Sie nahm Unterricht in Klavier, Fagott, Violine, Gesang und Musiktheorie an der Preparatory Division an der Juilliard… …

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  • 34glance — I. /glæns / (say glans), /glans / (say glahns) verb (glanced, glancing) –verb (i) 1. to look quickly or briefly. 2. to gleam or flash. 3. to go off in an oblique direction from an object struck: the blow glanced off his chest. 4. to allude… …

  • 35φοινικοφαῆ — φοινῑκοφαῆ , φοινικοφαής ruddy glancing neut nom/voc/acc pl (attic epic doric) φοινῑκοφαῆ , φοινικοφαής ruddy glancing masc/fem/neut nom/voc/acc dual (doric aeolic) φοινῑκοφαῆ , φοινικοφαής ruddy glancing masc/fem acc sg (attic epic doric) …

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  • 36Glance — Glance, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glanced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glancing}.] 1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. [1913 Webster] From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered… …

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  • 37Glanced — Glance Glance, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glanced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glancing}.] 1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. [1913 Webster] From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a… …

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  • 38ricochet — I. noun Etymology: French Date: 1769 a glancing rebound (as of a projectile off a flat surface); also an object that ricochets II. intransitive verb (ricocheted; also ricochetted; ricocheting; also ricochetting) Date: 1828 to bounce or skip with… …

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  • 39sideswipe — I. transitive verb Date: 1904 to strike with a glancing blow along the side < sideswiped a parked car > II. noun Date: 1917 1. a. the action of sideswiping b. an instance of sideswiping ; a glancing blow …

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  • 40Invisible ink — Invisible ink, also known as security ink, is a substance used for writing, which is invisible either on application or soon thereafter, and which later on can be made visible by some means. Invisible ink is one form of steganography, and it has&#8230; …

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