Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The dorsal part of a thoracic segment of an insect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, the dorsal aspect of the thorax or of any thoracic segment. The notum is divided into pronotum, mesonotum, and metanotum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
back .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Quod esse non potest: quia sic idem esset notius et minus notum, ut patet in primo posteriorum.
June 18th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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+ “Cuperem notum esse quod sim non opto ut sciatur qualis sim.”
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Deux ace non possunt, et sixeinque solvere nolunt; Omnibus est notum quater tre solvere totum.
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Ex occursu daemonum aliqui furore corripiuntur, et experientia notum est.
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Aquinas regards each of the first practical principles as self-evident (per se notum: known through itself) and undeduced (primum and indemonstrabile).
Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy Finnis, John 2005
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Another of the same kind appears, ‘Aug. 7, 1779, Partem brachii dextri carpo proximum et cutem pectoris circa mamillam dextram rasi, ut notum fieret quanto temporis pili renovarentur.’
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Lombardicis leucis: Geometrica autem leuca describitur, vt notum est, per hos versus.
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De ouibus quidem, vt iam dictum est, et præcipuè suibus (cum illa prouincia sues non habeat) falsum: De canibus haud mirum, cum illis nec regum aulæ caruerint nec hodiè careant, vt nimis omnibus est notum.
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Porrò id admirari, est præter authoritatem tantorum virorum, quibus Ætnæ incendium optimè notum erat, quæ, cùm secundum Plinium hybernis temporibus niualis sit, noctibus tamen, eodem teste, semper ardet.
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Expeditissima san� per Orientem in Cathaium est nauigatio: et s鎝� miratus sum, eam foeliciter inchoatam, desertam fuisse, velis in occidentem translatis, postquam plus qu鄊 dimidium itineris vestri iam notum haberent.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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