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  2. Basionym - Wikipedia

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    The term "basionym" is used in both botany and zoology. [3] In zoology, alternate terms such as original combination [4] or protonym [3] [5] are sometimes used instead. Bacteriology uses a similar term, basonym, spelled without an i. [6] Although "basionym" and "protonym" are often used interchangeably, they have slightly different technical ...

  3. Base (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    The term "base" appears to have been first used in 1717 by the French chemist, Louis Lémery, as a synonym for the older Paracelsian term "matrix." In keeping with 16th-century animism , Paracelsus had postulated that naturally occurring salts grew within the earth as a result of a universal acid or seminal principle having impregnated an ...

  4. Kenning - Wikipedia

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    So in "whale's road", "road" is the base-word, and "whale's" is the determinant. This is the same structure as in the modern English term "skyscraper"; the base-word here would be "scraper", and the determinant "sky". In some languages, kennings can recurse, with one element of the kenning being replaced by another kenning.

  5. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    Lying against another part of the plant; when applied to a cotyledon, it means that an edge of the cotyledon lies along the folded radicle in the seed. [8]-aceae Suffix added to the word stem of a generic name to form the name of a taxonomic family; [9] for example, Rosaceae is the rose family, of which the type genus is Rosa. [10] achene

  6. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    "A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of times) are specially designated within a numerical system." [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1]

  7. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    The first baseman (3) fields a batted ball, steps on first (to force the batter out), and then throws to the shortstop (6), who tags out a runner. Another possibility is a line drive caught by the first baseman, who throws to the shortstop, who then steps on second base for a second out.

  8. Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names - Wikipedia

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    Some of these names are "classical terms", i.e., words of Latin or Ancient Greek etymology. Others are English language constructs (although the base words may have non-English etymology). In some disciplines, where shapes of subjects in question are a very important consideration, the shape naming may be quite elaborate, see, e.g., the ...

  9. Glossary of chemistry terms - Wikipedia

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    Also acid ionization constant or acidity constant. A quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution expressed as an equilibrium constant for a chemical dissociation reaction in the context of acid-base reactions. It is often given as its base-10 cologarithm, p K a. acid–base extraction A chemical reaction in which chemical species are separated from other acids and bases. acid ...