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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of eastern Indonesia in the Moluccas west of New Guinea. It borders on the Ceram Sea, a section of the western Pacific Ocean.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of
ceramics .
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Examples
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The people here — at least the chief men — were of a much purer Malay race than the Mahometans of the mainland of Ceram, which is perhaps due to there having been no indigenes on these small islands when the first settlers arrived.
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Now, to show the real effect of such barrier, let us take the island of Ceram, which is exactly the same distance from
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The people here -- at least the chief men -- were of a much purer Malay race than the Mahometans of the mainland of Ceram, which is perhaps due to there having been no indigenes on these small islands when the first settlers arrived.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Ceram, which is exactly the same distance from New Guinea, but separated from it by a deep sea.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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GODS, GRAVES, AND SCHOLARS, C.W. Ceram: A great popular history of archaeology, loaded with Indiana Jones stuff as well as some excellent leads on other works of history.
Fifteen books that given the way my life has turned out I probably shouldn't have read 2009
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Seven new scientists may seem small beer, but as Ceram now draws no state subsidy and depends for its income on private clients, their hiring suggests returning confidence.
Fire returns to the Potteries' heart Ian Jack 2010
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The industry's scientific consultancy, Ceram, has just recruited seven new scientists to laboratories that started their life as the British Ceramic Research Association, opened in 1951 by a government that was keen to celebrate and protect the country's industrial future and therefore entered grandly through a neo-Greek portico.
Fire returns to the Potteries' heart Ian Jack 2010
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Dutch researcher, van Hogenhouck, published a report at the same time in which he classified these covered-gilled giant newts in the order of proper newts or tritons under the name of megatriton molucccanus and established that they were distributed throughout the Dutch-Sundanese islands of Jilolo, Morotai and Ceram; there was also a report by the French scientist Dr. Mignard who saw them as typical salamanders and concluded that they had originated in the
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Another large and extraordinary bird is the Cassowary, which inhabits the island of Ceram only.
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Ceram, the north part of Gilolo, and all the small islands around it, the northern extremity of Celebes, and the islands of Sian and
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