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MILLIONAIRE |
Person worth 1,000,000 |
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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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BILLIONTH |
1,000,000,000th |
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MEGAWATT |
1,000,000 watts |
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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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VALUATOR |
Person who estimates the worth or quality of things |
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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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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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EULOGY |
A speech or writing in commendation of the character or
services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth. |
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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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WORTHY |
A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for
useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much
used in the plur... |
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INTRINSIC |
...n
action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person. ... |
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AT |
The relation of a point or position in a series, or of
degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80¡; goods sold at
a cheap price; a... |
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ADMIRE |
...; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire
a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. ... |