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  2. Specimen - Wikipedia

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    Sample (material), a limited quantity of something which is intended to be similar to and represent a larger amount; Biological specimen or biospecimen, an organic specimen held by a biorepository for research Laboratory specimen, a biological specimen taken by sampling; Zoological specimen, an animal or part of an animal preserved for ...

  3. Specimen stamp - Wikipedia

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    Specimen stamps have no postal validity so postal administrations are free to distribute them as widely as they like and this can include to stamp dealers, philatelic magazines, government bodies, embassies and as promotional items for philatelists. As many specimen stamps are worth more than the originals, they have often been forged.

  4. Handwriting exemplar - Wikipedia

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    Request writings are obtained from an individual specifically for the purposes of conducting a handwriting comparison whereas collected writings are samples the individual produced for some other, unrelated reason generally in the course of their day-to-day activities. The two types of exemplars are complementary to one another.

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. 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 ...

  6. Sample - Wikipedia

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    USS Sample, a frigate in the U.S. Navy; The Sample, a defunct department store in Buffalo, New York, U.S. SAMPLE history, a mnemonic acronym for questions that medical first responders should ask; Product sample, a sample of a consumer product that is given to the consumer so that they may try a product before committing to a purchase

  7. The Free Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Free Library has a separate homepage. It is a free reference website that offers full-text versions of classic literary works by hundreds of authors. It is also a news aggregator, offering articles from a large collection of periodicals containing over four million articles dating back to 1984. Newly published articles are added to the site ...

  8. Cf. - Wikipedia

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    For example, "Barbus cf. holotaenia" indicates that the specimen is in the genus Barbus and believed to be Barbus holotaenia, but the actual species-level identification cannot be certain. [ 5 ] Cf. can also be used to express a possible identity, or at least a significant resemblance, such as between a newly observed specimen and a known ...

  9. Type specimen (mineralogy) - Wikipedia

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    In mineralogy, the type specimen, also known as type material, is a reference sample by which a mineral is defined. [1] Similar to the biology type methods, a mineral type specimen is a sample (or in some cases a group of samples) of a mineral to which the scientific name of that mineral is formally attached. In other words, a type specimen is ...