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- adjective Referring to the olfactory senses or the sense of smell.
Etymologies
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Noun of action from Latin olfacere ("to smell (trans.)"), from olere ("to emit a smell") (see odor) + facere ("to make") (see factitious).
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In a letter to Fiore now made public, Apple cited section 3.3.14 as the basis for its decision, lumping caricatures of President Obama right in there with hardcore. the makers of iFartMobile tout the creation of what it calls an "olfactic framework," bringing to mind various aromas through the precise cataloguing and reproduction of associated sounds.
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