Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The chemical symbol of iron (Latin fer-rum).
  • An abbreviation of Fellow of the Entomological Society;
  • of Fellow of the Ethnological Society.

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  • noun chemistry Symbol for iron.
  • noun American Library Association abbreviation for forty-eighth, a book size (7.5-10 cm in height); a book of that height.

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  • noun a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin ferrum, iron.]

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From Latin ferrum ("iron")

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Abbreviation, from forty-eighth, corresponding to one forty-eighth of a standard uncut sheet of paper.

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  • Hotel Santa Fe is a good bet for a high end choice, but not too ritzy place.

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  • Gilbert's time in Santa Fe is already paying off in his Strauss interpretations and the rest of the program was excellent.

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  • Gilbert's time in Santa Fe is already paying off in his Strauss interpretations and the rest of the program was excellent.

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  • Dr. Delgado at De La Fe is an internal medicine specialist with special interest in infectious diseases, and he would be able to tell you where to get a typhoid shot.

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  • Dr. Delgado at De La Fe is an internal medicine specialist with special interest in infectious diseases, and he would be able to tell you where to get a typhoid shot.

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  • Dr. Delgado at De La Fe is an internal medicine specialist with special interest in infectious diseases, and he would be able to tell you where to get a typhoid shot.

    FYI-Cost for Med treatment in SMA 2004

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