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  2. Slowness (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Slowness (French: La Lenteur) is a novel by Czech writer Milan Kundera published in 1995 in France, where the author had been living since the 1970s. It's his first fictional work written in French. [ 1 ]

  3. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.

  4. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    When an answer is composed of multiple or hyphenated words, some crosswords (especially in Britain) indicate the structure of the answer. For example, "(3,5)" after a clue indicates that the answer is composed of a three-letter word followed by a five-letter word. Most American-style crosswords do not provide this information.

  5. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    At a walking pace; flowing; moderately slow tempo Andantino: a little bit walking: Less of a walking pace than andante (so slightly quicker) A tempo: to time: Return to previous tempo Fermata: held, stopped, orig. Latin firmo "make firm, fortify" Holding or sustaining a note Grave: grave, solemn: Slow and solemn tempo (slower than largo) Largo ...

  6. The Discovery of Slowness - Wikipedia

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    The Discovery of Slowness (original German title: Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit) is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a double conceit: first, as a novelization of the life of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, and second as a hymn of praise to "slowness," a quality which Nadolny's fictional Franklin possesses in abundance.

  7. Slowness (seismology) - Wikipedia

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    Slowness (s) is a quantity introduced in Seismology which is the reciprocal of velocity. Thus travel time of a wave is the distance that the wave travels times the slowness of the medium ( in seismology, it refers to different layers of Earth exhibiting different densities ) Thus,

  8. The ClueFinders 6th Grade Adventures: The Empire of the Plant ...

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    While playing a game of frisbee, Joni accidentally tosses the disc over the fence into the overgrown yard of their apparently friendly neighbor Miss Rose.When Joni and Santiago enter Miss Rose's yard to find the frisbee, the ground literally opens up and swallows them.

  9. Anagram dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The first such anagram dictionary was The Crossword Anagram Dictionary by R.J. Edwards [1] In the other kind of anagram dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words with the same number of each kind of letter. Thus words will only appear when other words can be made from the same letters.