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  • I'm so delighted that my favorite definition appears as Definition 2 on the list.

    iMechanica - Comments 2009

  • But watching them in High Definition is even better.

    Matthew Yglesias » Late Lunch Open Thread 2009

  • So called High Definition is nothing but a lot of hype, but not in the standard sense of hype.

    HDTV Becomes De Rigueur - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • I had to laugh after actually reading the Wikopedia definition because of the "Problems in Definition" section.

    The Deconstruction of Women's Clothing 2007

  • [The root for this word is based in a French/Portuguese word for "artificial"] - Definition from the American Heritage Dictionary [full version].

    Fetishes As Fetish Does Heather McDougal 2007

  • Definition is what nearly all my prose writing has been about, even the more lyrical analytical pieces.

    Language Makes the Senses One 2003

  • Definition is what nearly all my prose writing has been about, even the more lyrical analytical pieces.

    Language Makes the Senses One 2003

  • Definition is now so good that in the case of visible light it corresponds to an observer on earth being able to see the details of a postage stamp on the moon,

    Press Release: The 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics 1974

  • The inductions of arithmetic are of two sorts: first, those which we have just expounded, such as One and one are two, Two and one are three, etc., which may be called the definitions of the various numbers, in the improper or geometrical sense of the word Definition; and secondly, the two following axioms: The sums of equals are equal, The differences of equals are equal.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • &c., which may be called the definitions of the various numbers, in the improper or geometrical sense of the word Definition; and secondly, the two following axioms: The sums of equals are equal, The differences of equals are equal.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839

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