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  • 51osteitis deformans — noun a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities • Syn: ↑Paget s disease • Hypernyms: ↑osteitis * * * də̇ˈfȯrˌmanz noun Etymology:… …

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  • 52Deform — De*form , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deformed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deforming}.] [L. deformare; de + formare to form, shape, fr. forma: cf. F. d[ e]former. See {Form}.] 1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. [1913 Webster]… …

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  • 53Deformation — Def or*ma tion, n. [L. deformatio: cf. F. d[ e]formation.] 1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 2. Transformation; change of shape. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 54Deformed — Deform De*form , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deformed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deforming}.] [L. deformare; de + formare to form, shape, fr. forma: cf. F. d[ e]former. See {Form}.] 1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. [1913… …

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  • 55deformation — noun Date: 15th century 1. alteration of form or shape; also the product of such alteration 2. the action of deforming ; the state of being deformed 3. change for the worse • deformational adjective …

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  • 56elastic — I. adjective Etymology: New Latin elasticus, from Late Greek elastos ductile, beaten, from Greek elaunein to drive, beat out; probably akin to Greek ēlythe he went, Old Irish luid Date: 1674 1. a. of a solid capable of recovering size and shape… …

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  • 57Euclidean space — Every point in three dimensional Euclidean space is determined by three coordinates. In mathematics, Euclidean space is the Euclidean plane and three dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to… …

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  • 58Force — For other uses, see Force (disambiguation). See also: Forcing (disambiguation) Forces are also described as a push or pull on an object. They can be due to phenomena such as gravity, magnetism, or anything that might cause a mass to accelerate …

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  • 59Geology — Oceanic crustContinental Crust] Geology (from Greek: γη, gê , earth ; and λόγος, logos , speech lit. to talk about the earth) is the science and study of the solid and liquid matter that constitute the Earth. The field of geology encompasses the… …

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  • 60Homeomorphism — Topological equivalence redirects here; see also topological equivalence (dynamical systems). donut illustrating that they are homeomorphic. But there does not need to be a continuous deformation for two spaces to be homeomorphic.In the… …

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