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  2. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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    Cove – Small sheltered bay or coastal inlet; Cuspate foreland – Geographical features found on coastlines and lakeshores; Dune system – Hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes or the flow of water; Estuary – Partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water; Firth – Scottish word used for various coastal inlets and straits

  3. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    A small piece of flesh-like tissue, typically lumpy or warty, growing on the testa near the hilum. Contrast aril. caryopsis A dry, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit in which the seed coat is closely fused to the fruit wall, e.g. in most grasses. Casparian strip

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a small amount usu. in contrast to a larger one ("penny wise, pound foolish", common phrase in both British and American usage) (pl. pennies) a cent (esp. the coin) (penny-ante) trivial, small-time. period section of time menstruation row of the periodic table: punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence

  5. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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    Assembling a piece of fabric, or a garment, by stitching together smaller pieces of fabric into a single whole. Commonly used in quilting. [20] [21] piping Piping is a type of trim or embellishment consisting of a strip of folded fabric inserted into a seam to define the edges or style lines of a garment or other textile object.

  6. Faggot (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Woman Carrying a Faggot, Mihály Munkácsy. A faggot, in the meaning of "bundle", is an archaic English unit applied to bundles of certain items. Alternate spellings in Early Modern English include fagate, faget, fagett, faggott, fagot, fagatt, fagott, ffagott, and faggat.

  7. Micrometeoroid - Wikipedia

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    A micrometeoroid is a tiny meteoroid: a small particle of rock in space, usually weighing less than a gram. A micrometeorite is such a particle that survives passage through Earth's atmosphere and reaches Earth's surface. The term "micrometeoroid" was officially deprecated by the IAU in 2017, as redundant to meteoroid. [1]

  8. Glossary of woodworking - Wikipedia

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    A small block of wood used to separate boards that are in the process of drying. sticking A type of moulding that is part of a larger piece of wood such as a frame (as opposed to being applied independently). stile. Also called a style. A vertical member of a frame on a door, window or panel. Contrast rail. stringer

  9. interposer – a small piece of semiconductor material (glass, silicon, or organic) built to host and interconnect two or more dies and/or chiplets in a single package; lead – a metal structure connecting the circuitry inside a package with components outside the package