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noun
1.
A fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body.  Synonyms: tocopherol, vitamin E.
2.
A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.  Synonyms: atomic number 99, einsteinium, Es.
3.
The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees.  Synonyms: due east, east, eastward.
4.
The base of the natural system of logarithms; approximately equal to 2.718282....
5.
The 5th letter of the Roman alphabet.



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... another, till I have consumed weeks and filled volumes. Here I will draw to a close; I will send you what I have written, and discuss with you in conversation my other immediate concerns, and my schemes for the future. As soon as I have seen Sarsefield, I will visit you. FAREWELL. E. H. ...
— Edgar Huntley • Charles Brockden Brown

... ring which swings to and fro to the murmur of the Tivoli Falls. In Switzerland I excited at will, in a poor child afflicted with a frightful nervous malady, hysterical and catalyptic crises, by playing in the minor key of E flat. The celebrated Doctor Bertier asserts that the sound of a drum gives him the colic. Certain medical men state that the notes of the trumpet quicken the pulse and induce slight perspiration. The sound of the bassoon is cold; the notes of the French horn at a distance, and of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various

... seriously inadequate; two cellular systems have been introduced, but a sharp increase in the number of main lines is essential; e-mail and Internet services are available domestic: intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and radiotelephone communication stations, fixed and mobile cellular systems for short-range traffic international: country code ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... C.E. Ward), Duke University Press, 1942, pp. 71-72. Hooker has noticed the similarity of two of Dennis's opinions to views expressed by Dryden in his then unpublished "Heads of an Answer" to Rymer's Tragedies of the ...
— The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry • Andre Dacier

... VERSION. Annual Register VERSION I lately thought no man alive Could e'er improve past forty-five, And ventured to assert it; The observation was not new, But seem'd to me so just and true, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell


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