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GENERAL TERM

Definition: GENERAL TERM

GENERAL TERM

1. (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

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Crosswords: GENERAL TERM

English words defined with "GENERAL TERM": bugCarpolite, conceptualism, Cross-bandedEssoin day, estrogenHalacha, HydrometeorIn chief, Inside finishmyriapodoestrogen, Overhead work, Oxbridgephobia, phobic disorder, phobic neurosis, Photics, ProsenchymaSiderostat, sticks and stoneterm, The five wits, To be the death of, To commit, To commit to memory, To put over, To whistle off, transcortical aphasiaUranite. (references)
Specialty definitions using "GENERAL TERM": ac test, ACCOUNTANT, CERTIFIED PUBLIC, administration of estates, algarite, aliasing, alkali garnet, aluminosilicate refractory, amphibolide, Application pilot for people with special needs, Apudoma, augen gneissbanket, barrings, bitty box, blennorrhoea, block caving, Blocks, Bombs, bottom stone, branching process, Bring, British Museum algorithm, building stoneCarry, cast strand, CE-HEO, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, chorismite, Christopher Strachey, Circumcision, Female, Climb down, coal stripper, commercial granite, content-based information retrieval, CONTINUUM STORM, Convulsions, cored hole, CORONAL TRANSIENTS, crushed stone, cryogenic fluiddata dictionary, declarative language, Deformed Ice, delint, Destructive analysis, deuteromorphic, Diatreme, divisional plane, donkey engineer, DPA, drapery fabric, drivageEcological Entity, Encephalomyelitis, exsolution textureferricrust, Fetch, fixed effects constants model, fixed net, flowstone, FRS, fusiteGage Height, gelatins, geological survey, glial tumors, Gluten Sensitive Enteropathy, gold milling, Group quarters populationHag-knots, halokinesis, harvest cut, harvest cutting, heat balance, hemicellulose, hemicelluloses, HINNEY, hoist boy, homocline, Hydrologic Servicesinexact equivalencejacquard mechanism, joint ownershipkiesland use planning, lantern glazing, lantern panes, leading heading, Lexis theory, Liberals, light alloys, ligroine, lion food, locatable minerals, Locus/loci, Ludditesmacrostructure, main arch, Major Flooding, Malabsorption Syndromes. (references)

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Use in Literature: GENERAL TERM

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The esthetic emotion (I use the general term) is therefore static.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: GENERAL TERM

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Myopathy is a general term referring to any disease of muscles. (references)

In ancient times stroke was called apoplexy,* a general term that physicians applied to anyone suddenly struck down with paralysis. (references)

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a general term that refers to infection of the fallopian tubes (tubes that carry eggs from the ovary to the womb) and of other internal reproductive organs in women. (references)

Indigenous People

Belize

Among the country's indigenous people, the Mopan and Ke'kchi are grouped under the general term Maya, although their leaders say that they should be identified as the Masenal, meaning "common people." The Maya have sought official recognition of their communal claims to land, but the Government has been reluctant to single out one ethnic group for special consideration. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GENERAL TERM

Language Translations for "GENERAL TERM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

梆子" (the music of such operas). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sorptio (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption), imeytyminen (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, absorption, infiltration, percolation, seepage, sorption, wicking). (various references)

   

French

  

sorption (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption). (various references)

   

German

  

Sorption (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ρόφηση (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

általános tag. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

総称 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうしょう (contentious, dispute by legal action, inheritance, master, symmetry, teacher, wound). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eneralgay ermtay

   

Spanish

  

sorción (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sorption (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GENERAL TERM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-l-m-n-r-r-t"

-2 letters: agreement.

-3 letters: eglatere, emergent, enameler, enlarger, generate, greenlet, lamenter, lateener, meterage, regelate, regental, relearnt, relegate, teenager, telegram.

-4 letters: alerter, alterer, eagerer, elegant, element, enlarge, enteral, enterer, etagere, eternal, garment, gatemen, general, genteel, gentler, germane, gleamer, gleaner, gleeman, gleemen, grantee, granter, greaten, greater, greener, greeter, learner, legatee, mangler, margent, melange, meltage, negater, reagent, realter, reenter, regaler, regrant, regrate, regreen, regreet, relater, relearn, remerge, reneger, tangler, teenage, teleman, telemen, teleran, terrane, terreen, terrene.

-5 letters: almner, angler, antler, argent, armlet, eaglet, earner, elater, emerge, enamel, engram, enrage, entera, entree, ergate, errant, eterne, galere, gamete, garner, garnet, garret, garter, gelant, gelate, genera, gentle, gerent, german, germen, grater, lament, larger, lateen, leaner, learnt, legate, legman, legmen, magnet, malgre, manege, mangel, manger, mangle, mantel, mantle, marten, meager, meagre, meaner, meeter, melter, menage, mental, merger, metage, nearer, neater, negate, ragmen, ranger, ranter, realer, reamer, reearn, reeler, regale, regear, regent, reglet, regnal, regret, relate, relent, remate, remeet, remelt, rename, renege, rental, renter, reteam, retear, retene, retral, tangle, tearer, teemer, teener, tegmen, telega, tergal, termer, terrae, tramel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GENERAL TERM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 45 4E 45 52 41 4C      54 45 52 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#78 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 004E 0045 0052 0041 004C      0054 0045 0052 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41394839523546254395247

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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