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71plethora — noun Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Greek plēthōra, literally, fullness, from plēthein to be full more at full Date: 1541 1. a bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood and marked by turgescence and a florid complexion 2. excess,… …
72redundancy — noun (plural cies) Date: circa 1602 1. a. the quality or state of being redundant ; superfluity b. the use of redundant components; also such components c. chiefly British dismissal from a job especially by layoff 2. profusion …
73terse — adjective (terser; tersest) Etymology: Latin tersus clean, neat, from past participle of tergēre to wipe off Date: 1601 1. smoothly elegant ; polished 2. devoid of superfluity < a terse summary >; also short, brusque …
74vain — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, empty, futile, from Latin vanus more at wane Date: 14th century 1. having no real value ; idle, worthless < vain pretensions > 2. marked by futility or ineffectualness ; unsuccessful,… …
75excess — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French or Late Latin; Anglo French exces, from Late Latin excessus, from Latin, departure, projection, from excedere to exceed Date: 14th century 1. a. the state or an instance of surpassing usual,… …
76fat — I. adjective (fatter; fattest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fǣtt, past participle of fǣtan to cram; akin to Old High German feizit fat Date: before 12th century 1. notable for having an unusual amount of fat: a. plump b. obese c …
77Bose–Einstein condensate — A Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter of bosons confined in an external potential and cooled to temperatures very near to absolute zero (val|0|u=K, val| 273.15|u=°C, or val| 459.67|u=°F ). Under such supercooled conditions, a… …
78Historicism — refers to philosophical theories that include one or both of two claims:# that there is an organic succession of developments, a notion also known as historism (in German historismus ), and/or; # that local conditions and peculiarities influence… …
79W. H. R. Rivers — Photograph of Rivers taken by Henry Maull Born 12 March 1864(1864 03 12) …
80Nikolai Gogol — Gogol redirects here. For other uses, see Gogol (disambiguation). For the Soviet sprint canoer, see Nikolay Gogol (canoer). Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Daguerreotype of Gogol taken in 1845 by Sergey Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898) Born …
