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  2. English compound - Wikipedia

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    English compound modifiers are constructed in a very similar way to the compound noun. Blackboard Jungle, leftover ingredients, gunmetal sheen, and green monkey disease are only a few examples. A compound modifier is a sequence of modifiers of a noun that function as a single unit.

  3. Outline of cell biology - Wikipedia

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    Light micrograph of a moss's leaf cells at 400X magnification. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cell biology: . Cell biology – A branch of biology that includes study of cells regarding their physiological properties, structure, and function; the organelles they contain; interactions with their environment; and their life cycle, division, and death.

  4. Chemical compound - Wikipedia

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    An ionic compound is a chemical compound composed of ions held together by electrostatic forces termed ionic bonding. The compound is neutral overall, but consists of positively charged ions called cations and negatively charged ions called anions .

  5. Transition metal oxo complex - Wikipedia

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    The iridium oxo complex Ir(O)(mesityl) 3 may appear to be an exception to the oxo-wall rule, but it is not because the complex is non-octahedral. [7] The trigonal symmetry reorders the metal d-orbitals below the degenerate MO π* pair. In three-fold symmetric complexes, multiple MO bonding is allowed for as many as 7 d-electrons. [18]

  6. Simple Complex - Wikipedia

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    Simple Complex is a jazz album of original compositions by pianist Jon Weber.The album, which was released in 2004 by the 2nd Century Jazz Label, features Weber on piano, drummer Mark Walker, Eric Alexander on sax, trumpeters Diego Urcola and Roy Hargrove, bassists Avishai Cohen, the late Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Peter Washington and Gary Burton on vibraphone.

  7. Compound modifier - Wikipedia

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    Words that function as compound adjectives may modify a noun or a noun phrase.Take the English examples heavy metal detector and heavy-metal detector.The former example contains only the bare adjective heavy to describe a device that is properly written as metal detector; the latter example contains the phrase heavy-metal, which is a compound noun that is ordinarily rendered as heavy metal ...

  8. Polysynthetic language - Wikipedia

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    Words may be simple, consisting of a single unit of meaning, or they can be complex, formed by combining many small units of meaning, called morphemes. In a general non-theoretical sense polysynthetic languages are those languages that have a high degree of morphological synthesis, and which tend to form long complex words containing long ...

  9. Compound verb - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector , which carries any inflections , indicating tense , mood , or aspect , but provides only fine shades of meaning.