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ammeter
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n 1: a meter that measures the flow of electrical current in
amperes
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anteater
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n 1: toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body
covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on
ants and termites [syn: pangolin, scaly anteater,
anteater]
2: any of several tropical American mammals of the family
Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and
termites [syn: anteater, New World anteater]
3: nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that
feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order
Tubulidentata [syn: aardvark, ant bear, anteater,
Orycteropus afer]
4: small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws
for feeding on termites; nearly extinct [syn: numbat,
banded anteater, anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus]
5: a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a
long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to
New Guinea [syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater]
6: a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a
long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to
Australia [syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater]
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beater
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n 1: a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter
2: an implement for beating
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cheater
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n 1: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
[syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster,
beguiler, slicker]
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telemeter
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n 1: any scientific instrument for observing events at a
distance and transmitting the information back to the
observer
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theta
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n 1: the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet
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tweeter
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n 1: a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency
sounds; "the sound system had both tweeters and woofers"
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voltmeter
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n 1: meter that measures the potential difference between two
points
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wattmeter
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n 1: an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in
an electrical circuit
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windcheater
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n 1: a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)
[syn: parka, windbreaker, windcheater, anorak]
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zeta
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n 1: the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet
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treater
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n 1: someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to
reach a settlement) [syn: negotiator, negotiant,
treater]
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eta
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n 1: a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student
activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate
nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create
an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees; "in
1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of
government officials" [syn: Basque Homeland and Freedom,
Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna,
ETA]
2: the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet
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demeter
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n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of fertility and protector of
marriage in ancient mythology; counterpart of Roman Ceres
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sita
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n 1: wife of the Hindu god Rama; regarded as an ideal of
womanhood
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machmeter
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n 1: speedometer for measuring the speed of an aircraft relative
to the speed of sound
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masseter
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n 1: a large muscle that raises the lower jaw and is used in
chewing
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vita
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voltammeter
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akita
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greta
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streeter
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peta
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rita
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anita
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bonita
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evita
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rhetor
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propraetor
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tripmeter
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