Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Russian measure of length, equal to the hundredth part of an inch.
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Examples
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It is hard to imagine now the totality of the instrument and the perverse imagination required to conceive it, but radio-tochka existed for decades, as present as water and electricity and twice as reliable.
The New Yorker 2008
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Iskra and Pravda, in the frenzied leaflets passed around in St. Petersburg meeting halls and later reprinted in "Ten Days That Shook the World" - but the leading instrument of enculturation and inundation under Joseph Stalin was a broadcast technology called radio-tochka, literally "radio point," a primitive receiver with no dial and no choice.
The New Yorker 2008
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