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  2. Palindrome - Wikipedia

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    A palindrome (/ˈpæl.ɪn.droʊm) is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as madam or racecar, the date "22/02/2022" and the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama".

  3. Lexical lists - Wikipedia

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    synonym and/or antonym lists; lists expounding homophony (multiple symbols, single sound) and polyvalency (single symbols, multiple meanings) The extant texts can be classified by typology as follows: Prisms and large tablets; Teacher-student exercises; Single column tablets; Lentils ("practice buns")

  4. Ordinal numeral - Wikipedia

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    The first two in the sequence are by far the most common; 'tertiary' appears occasionally, and higher numbers are rare except in specialized contexts ('quaternary period'). The Greek series proto- , deutero- , trito- , ... is only found in prefixes, generally scholarly and technical coinages, e.g. protagonist, deuteragonist, tritagonist ...

  5. Downsampling (signal processing) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] When the process is performed on a sequence of samples of a signal or a continuous function, it produces an approximation of the sequence that would have been obtained by sampling the signal at a lower rate (or density, as in the case of a photograph). Decimation is a term that historically means the removal of every tenth one.

  6. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  7. Sequence - Wikipedia

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    The set C = {0, 1} ∞ of all infinite binary sequences is sometimes called the Cantor space. An infinite binary sequence can represent a formal language (a set of strings) by setting the n th bit of the sequence to 1 if and only if the n th string (in shortlex order) is in the language.

  8. Formulaic language - Wikipedia

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    A formulaic sequence is "a sequence, continuous or discontinuous, of words or other elements, which is, or appears to be, prefabricated: that is, stored and retrieved whole from memory at the time of use, rather than being subject to generation or analysis by the language grammar."

  9. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Progymnasmata – a series of preliminary rhetorical exercises that began in ancient Greece and continued during the Roman Empire. Prosopopoeia – speaking as another person or object. Pronuntiatio – the delivery of an oration or an argument in a manner befitting the subject matter and style, while maintaining control of voice and body.