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NOONE |
Nobody is number one |
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PIECEWORKER |
One who is paid for the number of items produced |
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SHARE |
Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which
any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten
shares. |
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EXCESS |
The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds
another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the
excess of one over the other. |
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ALIQUOT |
An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will
divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15.
Opposed to aliquant. |
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DIVISION |
The process of finding how many times one number or
quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also,
the rule by which the operation is performed. |
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CHEMITYPE |
One of a number of processes by which an impression from
an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an
ordinary printing press. |
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ALIQUANT |
An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which
does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant
part of 16. Opposed to aliquot. |
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HELMINTHES |
One of the grand divisions or branches of the
animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species,
most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha. |
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OVER |
A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered
successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled
from behind the other wi... |
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QUOTIENT |
The number resulting from the division of one number by
another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater;
thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three. |
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UNDERLEASE |
A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a
lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer
or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease. |
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CAT |
An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with
which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according
to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc. |
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EACH |
Every one of the two or more individuals composing
a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used
either with or without ... |
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SERIES |
An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each
of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law,
called the law... |
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PARTY |
A number of persons united in opinion or action, as
distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or
association; esp., one of the... |
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VINGT ET UN |
A game at cards, played by two or more persons. The
fortune of each player depends upon obtaining from the dealer such
cards that the sum of th... |
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WE |
The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first
person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a
number or company ... |
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SELECTMAN |
One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the
New England States to transact the general public business of the town,
and have a kind ... |
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SPECIMEN |
A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number
of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of
what is not e... |
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DIFFERENTIAL |
A small difference in rates which competing railroad
lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to
make, in order to get... |
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MAJORITY |
The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all
other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by
which the votes... |
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SEXTILLION |
According to the method of numeration (which is
followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit
with twenty-one ciphers ann... |
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PARABOLA |
One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn
where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the
cubical parabola n ... |
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STORAX |
Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from
the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most
common of these... |