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  2. Eyrie - Wikipedia

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    Eyrie, a novel by Tim Winton "Hope Eyrie" (a.k.a. "The Eagle Has Landed"), a song by Leslie Fish; The Eyrie, a castle in A Song of Ice and Fire and its TV adaptation Game of Thrones

  3. Energy - Wikipedia

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    The word energy derives from the Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, romanized: energeia, lit. 'activity, operation', [4] which possibly appears for the first time in the work of Aristotle in the 4th century BC. In contrast to the modern definition, energeia was a qualitative philosophical concept, broad enough to include ideas such as happiness ...

  4. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [41] [42]

  5. Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Langenscheidt dictionaries in various languages A multi-volume Latin dictionary by Egidio Forcellini Dictionary definition entries. A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions ...

  6. Éire - Wikipedia

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    True-colour satellite image of Ireland, known in Irish as Éire.. Éire (Irish: [ˈeːɾʲə] ⓘ) is the Irish language name for "Ireland". Like its English counterpart, the term Éire is used for both the island of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the sovereign state that governs 85% of the island's landmass.

  7. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    By definition, it is the amount of energy gained by the charge of a single electron moved across an electric potential difference of one volt. electronegativity A chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom or a functional group to attract electrons (or electron density) towards itself. electronics

  8. Uncanny - Wikipedia

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    By contrasting the German adjective unheimlich with its base word heimlich ("concealed, hidden, in secret"), he proposes that social taboo often yields an aura not only of pious reverence but even more so of horror and even disgust, as the taboo state of an item gives rise to the commonplace assumption that that which is hidden from public eye ...

  9. Inertia - Wikipedia

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    Inertia is the natural tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion and objects at rest to stay at rest, unless a force causes the velocity to change. It is one of the fundamental principles in classical physics, and described by Isaac Newton in his first law of motion (also known as The Principle of Inertia). [1]