interspersion

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For this reason the silk thread interspersion is in reality a very effective medium in preventing counterfeiting, not only on account of its peculiar appearance but also because of the elaborate methods necessary in its production In those mills making the finest grades of paper, much of the process of thrashing, beating, dusting, and cleaning necessary in the ordinary mill is omitted.

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  1. The act of interspersing, scattering, or placing here and there. These sentiments have obtained almost in all ages and places, though not without interspersion of certain corrupt additaments. Sir M. Hale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 62. For want of the interspersion of now and then an elegiack or a lyrick ode. Watts, Improvement of Mind.

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  • Upgraded support for GDB / MI mixed-code disassembly and interspersion of disassembled code with sources is included and improved multi-language debug support for C and Ada code are also provided to speed cross language test cycles. —  Embedded Computing Design
  • Indeed, DFB - I enjoy the random interspersion of other soundbites, easily available from the web, be they —  Word Magazine - Comments
  • "Doesn't conservation imply a certain interspersion of land-uses, a certain pepper-and-salt pattern in the warp and woof of the land-use fabric?" —  Loon Commons: Dedicated to Protecting and Restoring Minnesota’s Environment
  • As such, there was very little or no interspersion for sex ratio between areas and the area effect completely subsumed variation in sex ratio in the ANCOVA. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • For this reason the silk thread interspersion is in reality a very effective medium in preventing counterfeiting, not only on account of its peculiar appearance but also because of the elaborate methods necessary in its production In those mills making the finest grades of paper, much of the process of thrashing, beating, dusting, and cleaning necessary in the ordinary mill is omitted. —  A Book of Exposition
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  1. from intersperse + -ion. Cf. aspersion, dispersion, etc.
 

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