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  • noun German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927)

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  • The name come from the German word eigen, which means "self".

    memoirs on a rainy day 2009

  • Die sticker in combinatie met voldoende postzegels, gewoon uit eigen land is gewoon voldoende volgens mij.

    superficial time! nathreee 2010

  • Indeed, simply reporting eigen values for the 27% of question that a weighted average is calcuable would result i the most accurate of all representations.

    CNN Poll: Americans divided on President's health care plans 2009

  • I started to explain how Autonomy had developed software that could extract meaning and learn by using singular value decomposition in sparse eigen-spaces by using nonlinear Volterra expansions, allowing a computer to handle Internet information.

    Ten Minutes That Mattered: Autonomy's Mike Lynch 2010

  • Ik vind het leuk om mijn eigen taal in te zetten om wellicht een gesigneerd (!) exemplaar van je boek te winnen … herbij, in het Nederlands, mijn gelukswensen en schijf zo door!

    Een leven, een liefde, een weblog 2008

  • Ik heb nog nooit een installatie van wat voor programma dan ook op mijn eigen PC meegemaakt die niet gepaard ging met urenlang gerotzooi en gefoeter!

    Tis the season nathreee 2007

  • Each time that Heidegger refers the question of being to the question of the proper-ty (propre), of propriate, of propriation (eigen, eignen, ereignen, Ereignis especially) this dehiscence bursts forth anew.

    Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

  • Each time that Heidegger refers the question of being to the question of the proper-ty (propre), of propriate, of propriation (eigen, eignen, ereignen, Ereignis especially) this dehiscence bursts forth anew.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • Here is a detailed discussion of population structure and eigen analysis including all the mathematics involved.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Against Climate McCarthyism 2009

  • It would do little to assuage my fear of death to know an eigen-self would live on :

    Robin's Wishful Thinking, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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