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conservancy
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n 1: a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and
navigation in a port or river
2: the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.
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contingency
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n 1: a possible event or occurrence or result [syn:
eventuality, contingency, contingence]
2: the state of being contingent on something
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conversancy
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n 1: personal knowledge or information about someone or
something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity,
conversance, conversancy]
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counterinsurgency
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n 1: actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency [syn:
pacification, counterinsurgency]
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emergency
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n 1: a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that
requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an
emergency" [syn: emergency, exigency, pinch]
2: a state in which martial law applies; "the governor declared
a state of emergency"
3: a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical
linkage [syn: hand brake, emergency, emergency brake,
parking brake]
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incessancy
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n 1: the quality of something that continues without end or
interruption [syn: continuousness, ceaselessness,
incessancy, incessantness]
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insurgency
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n 1: an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted
government through the use of subversion and armed conflict
[syn: insurgency, insurgence]
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irrelevancy
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n 1: the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
[syn: irrelevance, irrelevancy] [ant: relevance,
relevancy]
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proficiency
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n 1: the quality of having great facility and competence
2: skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from
practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves
proficiency" [syn: proficiency, technique]
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pungency
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n 1: wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with
typical pungency"; "the bite of satire" [syn: pungency,
bite]
2: a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard";
"the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange
spices"; "the raciness of the wine" [syn: pungency, bite,
sharpness, raciness]
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regency
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n 1: the period of time during which a regent governs
2: the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent
during George III's periods of insanity
3: the office of a regent
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relevancy
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n 1: the relation of something to the matter at hand [syn:
relevance, relevancy] [ant: irrelevance,
irrelevancy]
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stringency
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n 1: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of
credit [syn: stringency, tightness]
2: conscientious attention to rules and details [syn:
strictness, stringency]
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sufficiency
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n 1: sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet
obligations; "her father questioned the young suitor's
sufficiency"
2: an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to
achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is
more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country" [syn:
enough, sufficiency]
3: the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he
questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence" [syn:
sufficiency, adequacy] [ant: deficiency, inadequacy,
insufficiency]
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tangency
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n 1: the state of being tangent; having contact at a single
point or along a line without crossing
2: (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical
conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to
solder the contacts" [syn: contact, tangency]
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translucency
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n 1: the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely [syn:
translucence, translucency, semitransparency]
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trenchancy
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n 1: keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or
intellect [syn: incisiveness, trenchancy]
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urgency
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n 1: the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent
necessity
2: pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of
his need"
3: an urgent situation calling for prompt action; "I'll be
there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly
because of some great urgency in their affairs"
4: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me
no alternative but to agree" [syn: importunity, urgency,
urging]
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c
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adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one
hundred, 100, c]
n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn:
degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C]
2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy
and universality of the speed of light is recognized by
defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn:
speed of light, light speed, c]
3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits)
and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C,
ascorbic acid]
4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C]
5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine;
pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in
three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and
diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C,
atomic number 6]
7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C]
8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge
transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn:
coulomb, C, ampere-second]
9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with
the UNIX operating system
10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c]
12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
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nascency
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n 1: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of
their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency,
nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry]
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recency
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n 1: a time immediately before the present [syn: recency,
recentness]
2: the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
[syn: recency, recentness]
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errancy
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n 1: (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted
doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility;
"he denies the errancy of the Catholic Church"
2: fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err [ant:
inerrancy]
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divergency
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n 1: an infinite series that has no limit [syn: divergence,
divergency] [ant: convergence, convergency]
2: the act of moving away in different direction from a common
point; "an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight
lines" [syn: divergence, divergency]
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innocency
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n 1: an innocent quality or thing or act; "the innocencies of
childhood"
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recusancy
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n 1: refusal to submit to established authority; originally the
refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church
of England
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incoherency
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n 1: lack of cohesion or clarity or organization [syn:
incoherence, incoherency] [ant: coherence,
coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness]
2: nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible [syn:
incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility]
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cie
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resurgency
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reagency
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subagency
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