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I'm so delighted that my favorite definition appears as Definition 2 on the list.
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But watching them in High Definition is even better.
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So called High Definition is nothing but a lot of hype, but not in the standard sense of hype.
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I had to laugh after actually reading the Wikopedia definition because of the "Problems in Definition" section.
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[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
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Definition is what nearly all my prose writing has been about, even the more lyrical analytical pieces.
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Definition is what nearly all my prose writing has been about, even the more lyrical analytical pieces.
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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,
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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
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&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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