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  2. Laotong - Wikipedia

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    The relationship was made formal by the signing of a contract, which would be done much like a legal contract, using a seal. Laotong would frequently develop a language to use to communicate between them that only they could understand (a type of Nu shu ), allowing them to send messages back and forth to one another.

  3. Irreversible binomial - Wikipedia

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    The expression "macaroni and cheese" is an irreversible binomial.The order of the two keywords of this familiar expression cannot be reversed idiomatically.. In linguistics and stylistics, an irreversible binomial, [1] frozen binomial, binomial freeze, binomial expression, binomial pair, or nonreversible word pair [2] is a pair of words used together in fixed order as an idiomatic expression ...

  4. Back-and-forth method - Wikipedia

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    Back-and-forth methods are often ascribed to Cantor, Bertrand Russell and C. H. Langford [...], but there is no evidence to support any of these attributions. While the theorem on countable densely ordered sets is due to Cantor (1895), the back-and-forth method with which it is now proved was developed by Edward Vermilye Huntington (1904) and ...

  5. On-again, off-again relationship - Wikipedia

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    These relationships differ from non-cyclical relationships in that on-again, off-again relationships are between partners that have pre-existing knowledge and experiences with each other. [4] In addition to this, on-and-off partners often report more relationship uncertainty, questioning the meaning of the relationship, its strength, and future ...

  6. Me and You and Everyone We Know - Wikipedia

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    He meets Christine, a senior-cab driver and amateur video artist, while she takes her client to shop for shoes, and the two develop a fledgling romantic relationship. Peter and Robby have a joint online chat, which Robby later depicts in another chat session as "))<>((", an emoticon that means "pooping back and forth, forever."

  7. Volleyball jargon - Wikipedia

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    Pepper: A drill in which players hit a ball back and forth in a pass, set, spike, pass, set, spike, etc. pattern without a net; Perimeter defense: A defensive formation of back row players where players set up along the edges of the court to dig. Middle back is deep in the center and right while left-back shift back and towards the sidelines.

  8. Back and Forth - Wikipedia

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    Back-and-forth method, a method of showing isomorphism between countably infinite structures satisfying specified conditions Back and Forth (software) , a shareware program for DOS Topics referred to by the same term

  9. Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game - Wikipedia

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    In the mathematical discipline of model theory, the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game (also called back-and-forth games) is a technique based on game semantics for determining whether two structures are elementarily equivalent. The main application of Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé games is in proving the inexpressibility of certain properties in first ...