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- noun Plural form of
plication .
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Examples
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George Inn; thy heels on the fender, and thy juridical brow expanding its plications as a pun rose in your fancy?
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He paused, thinking about the im - plications of it all.
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This chapter is based on Keith A. Steinkraus, A.plications of biotechnology and genetic engineering to A.rican fermented food processes, UNIDO/IS. 336.
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Moreover, the “glamor” of science, due to its spec - tacular advances and the visibility of its practical ap - plications, awakened the ambition to make philosophy an “exact” science in its own right.
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But even if imprinting were to be shown to be continuous with, or to be a form of, conditioning, there is no doubt that it is a phenomenon deserving special attention, not only because it is of great interest to ontogenetic studies of animal behavior but also because of its im - plications for human developmental psychology and psychopathology.
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In response to the often-repeated argument that savages scorn the com - plications and cares of civilized life, Johnson roundly declared that their opinion comes from ignorance alone.
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In political science there are increasingly many ap - plications.
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This very considerable variation in thickness will be found to be owing to the folds or plications of the vein, to which we shall hereafter make more particular allusion.
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On the contrary, it is seen to be marked by _folds_ or plications, occurring at tolerably regular intervals, and crossing the vein at an angle of 40° or 45° to the west.
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Soiled and crumpled ap-plications are considered defective and cannot be accepted.
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