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Small number of something Quartet: 4 Referring to people working or collaborating especially in musical performance Great gross: 1,728 A dozen gross (12x144) Hat-trick: 3 The achievement of, a generally positive feat, three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three [6] Several: 3+ Three or more but not many. Small gross: 120
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
In which, a small company takes over a large company or a private company takes over a public company. Safe Harbor A ploy to foil a takeover bid in which the target company goes out and buys a heavily regulated business so that acquisition of such a company becomes unattractive to the sharks. Sandbagging
New rules that make it more difficult for some small business in Great Britain to sell to customers in Northern Ireland and the EU have come into effect. The EU's General Product Safety Regulation ...
In common speech, an infinitesimal object is an object that is smaller than any feasible measurement, but not zero in size—or, so small that it cannot be distinguished from zero by any available means. Hence, when used as an adjective in mathematics, infinitesimal means infinitely small, smaller than any standard real number. Infinitesimals ...
Small-molecule anti-genomic therapeutics, or SMAT, refers to a biodefense technology that targets DNA signatures found in many biological warfare agents. SMATs are new, broad-spectrum drugs that unify antibacterial, antiviral and anti-malarial activities into a single therapeutic that offers substantial cost benefits and logistic advantages for ...
The environment can directly affect the survival of a small population. Some detrimental effects include stochastic variation in the environment (year to year variation in rainfall, temperature), which can produce temporally correlated birth and death rates (i.e. 'good' years when birth rates are high and death rates are low and 'bad' years when birth rates are low and death rates are high ...
In a book on slang used at Winchester College fire-dogs were fire basket that could hold long faggots, and half-faggots were smaller andirons that could only hold short faggots and were later converted for use with coal. [4] A long faggot was also called a kidd faggot, [5] kid, kide, or kidde being Middle English for firewood in bundles. [6]