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The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened during the years the lists were published. For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, 'integrity', showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the United States government, corporations, and sports. [1]
2019: Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon. [83] 2019: NASA concludes the 15-year Opportunity rover mission after being unable to wake the rover from hibernation. [84] 2019: The first image of the supermassive black hole inside galaxy Messier 87 was captured by the Event Horizon ...
Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]
In 2010, Dictionary.com announced its first word of the year, 'change', and has done so in December every year since. [38] The selection is based on search trends on the site throughout the year and the news events that drive them. [39] The following is the list of annual words since beginning with the first in 2010: [38]
8 July 2010: the Solar Impulse (picturedhola ) becomes the first aircraft to complete a non-stop 24-hour flight using only solar power. The year 2010 involved numerous significant scientific events and discoveries, some of which are listed below. The United Nations declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity. [1]
10 September – Scientists report the computerized determination, based on 260 CT scans, of a virtual skull shape of the last common human ancestor to modern humans, and suggests that the human ancestor arose through a merging of populations in East and South Africa, between 260,000 and 350,000 years ago. [346] [347] 11 September
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Scientific terminology is the part of the language that is used by scientists in the context of their professional activities. While studying nature, scientists often encounter or create new material or immaterial objects and concepts and are compelled to name them.