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archidiaconal
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adj 1: of or relating to an archdeacon or his office
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diagonal
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adj 1: connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or
any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face;
"a diagonal line across the page"
2: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant,
aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped,
sloping]
n 1: (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a
polygon that are not adjacent
2: a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to
a side of the fabric [syn: diagonal, bias]
3: an oblique line of squares of the same color on a
checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals"
4: (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running
diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or
running from the upper right to lower left entry
5: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of
information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal,
stroke, separatrix]
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hexagonal
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adj 1: having six sides or divided into hexagons [syn:
hexangular, hexagonal]
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orthogonal
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adj 1: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an
issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was
immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before
finally coming to the point" [syn: extraneous,
immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal]
2: statistically unrelated
3: having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right
angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of
gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular
Cartesian coordinate system" [syn: orthogonal,
rectangular]
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pentagonal
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adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon [syn:
pentangular, pentagonal]
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personal
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adj 1: concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her
private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for
your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something
personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his
personal bank account and she has hers" [ant:
impersonal]
2: particular to a given individual
3: of or arising from personality; "personal magnetism"
4: intimately concerning a person's body or physical being;
"personal hygiene"
5: indicating grammatical person; "personal verb endings"
n 1: a short newspaper article about a particular person or
group
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phenomenal
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adj 1: of or relating to a phenomenon; "phenomenal science"
2: exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic
damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength";
"phenomenaRl feats of memory"
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polygonal
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adj 1: having many sides or relating to a surface marked by
polygons; "polygonal structure"
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pronominal
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adj 1: relating to pronouns; "pronominal reference"
n 1: a phrase that functions as a pronoun [syn: pronominal
phrase, pronominal]
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retinal
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adj 1: in or relating to the retina of the eye; "retinal cells"
n 1: either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from
rhodopsin by the action of light [syn: retinene,
retinal]
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seminal
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adj 1: pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen;
"seminal fluid"
2: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one
discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn:
germinal, originative, seminal]
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sentinel
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n 1: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
[syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry,
watch, spotter, scout, picket]
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subliminal
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adj 1: below the threshold of conscious perception
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terminal
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adj 1: of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery
route; "freight pickup is a terminal service"; "terminal
charges"
2: relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time;
"terminal examinations"; "terminal payments"
3: being or situated at an end; "the endmost pillar"; "terminal
buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal
syllable" [ant: intermediate]
4: occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his
concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter";
"the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave" [syn:
concluding, final, last, terminal]
5: causing or ending in or approaching death; "a terminal
patient"; "terminal cancer"
n 1: station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers
or goods [syn: terminal, terminus, depot]
2: a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at
which electric current enters or leaves [syn: terminal,
pole]
3: either extremity of something that has length; "the end of
the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to
the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches
of the fornix" [syn: end, terminal]
4: electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access
to a computer; has a keyboard and display
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tetragonal
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adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like a quadrilateral
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vicinal
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adj 1: belonging to or limited to a vicinity
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mangonel
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n 1: an engine that provided medieval artillery used during
sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and
other missiles [syn: catapult, arbalest, arbalist,
ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet,
trebucket]
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matutinal
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adj 1: pertaining to or occurring in the morning; "took his
matutinal walk"
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luminal
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n 1: a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative [syn: sodium
thiopental, phenobarbital, phenobarbitone, Luminal,
purple heart]
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embryonal
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adj 1: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the
embryonic stage"; "embryologic development" [syn:
embryonic, embryologic, embryonal]
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diaconal
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heptagonal
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cognominal
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vaticinal
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subabdominal
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liminal
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aspinall
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testudinal
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lionel
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decagonal
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