One-Letter Words A Dictionary 10

... mirror glass, and a flying- V aerial on the back. Very cyberpunk. —Ian McDonald, Evolution’s Shore 32. n. V- beam radar: a height- finding radar that emits a vertical beam and another at 45 degrees.” ... cylinders are arranged in a V shape (e.g., V- 6 or V- 8). Cadillac anticipated the advantages of the V- type engine back in 1914 and has built no other type since. —R. M. Clarke, Cadilla...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 19:20

... and it’s a rating for an adult movie. X is a power of magnification, an axis on a graph, and a female chromosome. It is a multiplication operator, a letter of the alphabet, and an arbitrary point ... when a Buddhist lexicographer named Saddhammakitti enumerated Pali words of one letter in a work entitled Ekakkharakosa. It may have taken 300 years to bridge the gap, but I like...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:56

... which maximize surface area for heat dissipation. The three fins form a Y- shaped cross- section. FOREIGN MEANINGS 44. conj. (Spanish) And, as in Maria y Juan, “Maria and Juan.” FACTS AND FIGURES ... consonant Y means “awareness.” —Joseph E. Rael, Tracks of Dancing Light: A Native American Approach to Understand - ing Your Name 31. n. The twenty- fifth letter of the alphabet. Y’s career as...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 19:20

... With a line above it, a Roman numeral for 1,000,000. 16. n. A computer programming language. M is a procedural, general purpose language with well- developed database handling capabilities . ... or after N. The alphabet, a pillar, a solace and a certainty since kindergarten, had suddenly deserted him. He stood, bewildered and staring, as if he’d suffered a crisis of faith. Doe...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 19:20