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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A serranoid fish, Lates niloticus, found in the Nile. It attains a large size and is used for food.
  • noun Side: used in some mathematical terms designating a line or diameter.
  • noun A straight line drawn from the vertex of a conic at right angles to the transverse diameter, and having a length equal to the diameter of that circular section which is at the same distance from the vertex of the cone as is the plane of the conic.

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  • noun medicine Flank.

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