Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The supposed ability to perceive events and information by means other than the physical senses.
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- noun The
ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code forSpain . - initialism parapsychology
extrasensory perception - abbreviation automotive Electronic Stability Program
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
- noun apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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KING: James Randi, before we take phone calls, I had the honor of interviewing D.. J.D. Rhine of D.ke, the inventor of the term ESP extrasensory perception, psychic phenomenon and the like.
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1892 - Dr Paul Joire, a French researcher used the term ESP to describe the ability of a person who had been hypnotised or was in a trance-like state to sense things without using ordinary senses.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I wonder howthey fared in ESP research after the curtain fell.
The Psychics Behind the Iron Curtain « Awful Library Books 2010
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Game description: The universal organization ESP is ambitious to rule the Earth.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Article Source: ArticlesBase. com – The Wild Streak in ESP Guitars for head-to-head fantasy, would you trade rip hamilton, kirk hinrich, brad miller, and nenad krstic for …? for dirk nowitzki, jeff foster, and alonzo mourning and theo ratliff? considering … statwise who would be winning?
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Meanwhile, Boris Dragosani is similarly a member of the Russian special branch that specializes in ESP powers.
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A number of acquaintances I made through larp believe in ESP and like to discuss occurrences together.
ESP nathreee 2007
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* I've always been very interested in ESP and other purportedly paranormal abilities - particularly the less anecdotal information, i.e., as they can be observed and measured in a laboratory.
Yesterday moriarty6 2006
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Microsoft and Lockheed Martin have announced a deal to license the software titan's simulation software -- dubbed "ESP" -- for use in the aerospace firm's battle training simulations.
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While ESP is probably the best approach to this, it’s still somewhat problematic for a couple of reasons, namely that ESP itself can be detected and blocked.
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