Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as chawn.

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Examples

  • ITS, agre noted, threatened the possibility of driving anonymously. in collaboration with world leading privacy expert marc rotenberg, agre raised a number of policy issues essential to ensuring adequate privacy protection on tomorrow's semi-public highways. agre also commended a company called amtech systems for developing a vehicle identification process system that would allow people to pay tolls automatically but with complete privacy, based on the digital cash methods developed by internationally renowned cryptographer david chaum.

    B2fxxx 2005

  • Chateng, a spur from the lofty peak of Tukcham, * [ "Tuk" signifies head in Lepcha, and "cheam" or "chaum," I believe, has reference to the snow.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

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