Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- Cormack, Allan MacLeod 1924-1998. South African-born American physicist. He shared a 1979 Nobel Prize for developing the CAT scan x-ray technique.
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- proper n. A surname, an alternative form of Cormick.
Etymologies
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Allan Cormack is professor and head of the institution of physics at Tufts
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Cormack McCarthy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Faulkner, and Homero Ardijis are all very good at writing dense, layered stories that work at more than one level.
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I'd just taught Cormack McCarthy's THE ROAD, which was well written but mindnumbingly depressing, and I wondered (since EARTHBOUND had a similar opening situation) whether I could make my book work without it being so psychologically painful.
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Mr Cameron has also reprimanded shadow cabinet member Alan Duncan as well as backbenchers Douglas Hogg and Sir Patrick Cormack over MPs 'pay.
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Abby Cormack had suffered serious health problems following a high consumption of Extra gum and use of some Diet drinks.
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Cormack says that he saw damage caused by hot water.
Freshwater: Movement toward a settlement? - The Panda's Thumb
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Along a road of waking and working it all out endlessly, often trudgingly, like something out of a Cormack McCarthy novel, there is a person on the other side of that door who makes me want to jump out of bed and figure it all out.
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Of course, quite a few members of her family already live there (Clodagh and Cathal, Muirrin and Evan, Johnny, Gareth, Cormack.)
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As his rivals sang paeans to a new era of virtuous politics, Cormack invoked Machiavelli to remind the House of the contempt in which the public now holds it ...
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The fact that the pope has appointed the anti-tradition Archbishop Nichols as the successor to the liberal modernist Cormack-Murphy reveals yet again just what this papacy stands for.
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