Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A new or different arrangement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of
rearranging . - noun chemistry A
rearrangement reaction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun changing an arrangement
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The rearrangement is based on the number of foreign words (Nahuatl and Spanish) found in each one hundred lines.
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The rearrangement is based on the number of foreign words (Nahuatl and Spanish) found in each one hundred lines.
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For example, professional liar Elizabeth Rosenthal falsely insists in the February 9, 2006 New York Times: “Genetic rearrangement is most likely to occur in a human body when a person is simultaneously infected with the bird flu virus and a human flu virus that can swap genes†¦ The likelihood that such reshuffling will occur increases with each uncontrolled bird outbreak and each farmer who becomes infected. †This is all a Big Lie!
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006
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I'm extremely entertained by the name rearrangement on my livejournal.
Regendered 2006
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Demographers say that the changes are as much about population shifts as about the recession and that they may signal a more long-term rearrangement of our understanding of who lives where in the region.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Carol Morello 2011
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Incidents like these have to be seen against the background of a long-term rearrangement of the political space in western and eastern Europe.
Liberal multiculturalism masks an old barbarism with a human face Slavoj Zizek 2010
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CalN, qualitative difference is a difference in kind that cannot be described as a rearrangement, as a new structure.
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The rearrangement was a success however, and the remainder of the march was a pleasure instead of
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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"Together, these analyses demonstrated that the rearrangement is a result of precipitation and that clouds belonging to this kind of system rain almost in unison," said study team member Graham Feingold of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder,
Livescience.com 2010
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"Together, these analyses demonstrated that the rearrangement is a result of precipitation, and that clouds belonging to this kind of system rain almost in unison," Feingold adds.
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