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MEGAWATT |
1,000,000 watts |
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BILLIONTH |
1,000,000,000th |
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MILLIONAIRE |
Person worth 1,000,000 |
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EONS |
1,000,000,000 year periods |
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SENSE OF SMELL |
One in 10,000 people are born without which sense? |
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CRORE |
Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly
$5,000,000). |
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THOUSAND |
A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or
CI/. |
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SOMME |
1916 battle which more than one million men were killed and wounded, including 23,000 Australians |
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QUINTAL |
A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100
kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois. |
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PLETHRUM |
A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also,
a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet. |
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PLUM |
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language,
the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. |
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HECTARE |
A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred
ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres. |
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MILLION |
The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand
thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred. |
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KALPA |
One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years.
At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated. |
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KALI |
The last and worst of the four ages of the world; --
considered to have begun B. C. 3102, and to last 432,000 years. |
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RENNIN |
A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach
(abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called
chymosin, rennase, and abomasal enzyme. |
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BILLION |
According to the French and American method of numeration,
a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method,
a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration. |
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URANUS |
One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles
from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of
revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years. |
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MERCURY |
One of the planets of the solar system, being the one
nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000
miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles. |
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AT |
...or of
degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80¡; goods sold at
a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is... |
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TALENT |
Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of
money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a
weight, was about 57... |
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JUPITER |
...nus, and
the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It
revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5... |
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NEPTUNE |
... Its mean distance from the sun is about
2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78
years. ... |
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MARS |
... a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000
miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light. ... |
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GLOBIGERINA |
...he soft mud, generally found in depths
below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of
Foraminifera. ... |