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  • 21SQUID — /skwid/, n. superconducting quantum interference device: a device that senses minute changes in magnetic fields, used to indicate neural activity in the brain. [1965 70] * * * Any of nearly 400 species of 10 armed cephalopods, found in both… …

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  • 22SQUID — SQUIDs, acrónimo inglés para Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (Dispositivos superconductores de interferencia cuántica), fueron inventados en 1962, cuando B. D. Josephson desarrolló la unión de Josephson. Hay dos tipos de SQUID, DC y… …

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  • 23squid — [[t]skwɪ̱d[/t]] squids N COUNT (squid can also be used as the plural form.) A squid is a sea creature with a long soft body and many soft arms called tentacles. N UNCOUNT Squid is pieces of this creature eaten as food. Add the prawns and squid… …

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  • 24squid — кальмар Atlantic shortfin squid атлантический короткоперый кальмар Atlantic longfin squid американский длинноперый кальмар squid stuffed in oil фаршированный кальмар в масле unsalted dried squid пресно сушеный кальмар …

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  • 25SQUID — SQUỊD   [Abkürzung für englisch superconducting quantum interference device, »supraleitendes Quanteninterferometer«], hoch empfindliches Quanteninterferometer, ein auf den Josephson Effekten beruhendes Instrument zur Messung schwacher… …

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  • 26squid — 1) A double slang word: slang for the plural of quie, UK slang for a pound. (Actual plural is quid.) Lend us 15 squid. 2) Aa person in the Navy, generally young, male, attitudinal, who scams on every 17 year old girl he sees. (I ve only heard… …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 27squid — 1) A double slang word: slang for the plural of quie, UK slang for a pound. (Actual plural is quid.) Lend us 15 squid. 2) Aa person in the Navy, generally young, male, attitudinal, who scams on every 17 year old girl he sees. (I ve only heard… …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 28squid — noun (plural same or squids) an elongated, fast swimming cephalopod mollusc with eight arms and two long tentacles. [Loligo and other genera: many species.] ↘the flesh of squid as food. ↘an artificial fishing bait resembling a squid. verb (squids …

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  • 29squid — UK [skwɪd] / US noun Word forms squid : singular squid plural squid a) [countable] a sea animal like an octopus but with ten arms instead of eight b) [uncountable] this animal eaten as food …

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  • 30squid — I. noun (plural squid or squids) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1613 any of an order (Teuthoidea) of cephalopods having eight short arms and two usually longer tentacles, a long tapered body, a caudal fin on each side, and usually a slender… …

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