Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics, a function of the quantities appearing in a given set of functions which remains unaltered as well for linear substitutions impressed upon the variables as for linear combinations of the functions themselves (Sylvester, 1853); a covariant which remains unaltered when each quantic is replaced by a linear function of all the quantics (Cayley, 1856).
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Feb. 12th, 2010 03: 19 pm (UTC) trying to think of a better two word combinant than ... mecca hooves and failing
Howard Hughes and the Wretched Crack of Noon musey_q 2010
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Page Summary sovay: (no subject) [+0] slothman: (no subject) [+0] fusijui: (no subject) [+2] blu_muse: (no subject) [+1] jacobluest: (no subject) [+1] kaz_mahoney: (no subject) [+0] dethbird: trying to think of a better two word combinant than ...
Howard Hughes and the Wretched Crack of Noon musey_q 2010
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The long-term damage inflicted by institutional racialist policies constructed between the 1870s through their triumph in the second two decades of the 20th Century was combinant with the political damage of the general acceptance of state governance by terrorism with which the ‘Redeemer’ governments gained power.
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It is a combinant pictogram of the semaphore signals for the letters N and D. Nuclear disarmament was the message it was originally intended to convey but it grew to mean so much more.
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Patent No. 4,736,866 to Philip Leder and Timothy A. Stewart for "a transgenic non-human mammal whose germ cells and somatic cells contain a re-combinant activated oncogene sequence introduced into said mammal."
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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Patent No. 4,736,866 to Philip Leder and Timothy A. Stewart for "a transgenic non-human mammal whose germ cells and somatic cells contain a re-combinant activated oncogene sequence introduced into said mammal."
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If we imagine that A is the normal gene, and B is the gene for sickle cell, we can illustrate the combinant effect.
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If we imagine that A is the normal gene, and B is the gene for sickle cell, we can illustrate the combinant effect.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Stress-wise, zero resultant combinant systems of multiple translation vectors usually differ in: (1) magnitude, (2) polarization,
Chapter 4 1990
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Même si ma connaissance du français est sommaire (c'est le moins que l'on puisse dire), il est surprenant de voir que je peux malgré tout communiquer sans problème en combinant ce français sommaire avec des gestes, des expressions du visage, des indices visuels, des schémas, etc.
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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