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  2. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the distance between any two given points of a rigid body remains constant in time regardless of the external forces exerted on it. Even though such an object cannot physically exist due to relativity , objects can normally be assumed to be perfectly rigid if they are not moving near the speed of light .

  3. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {{}}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {{}} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code.

  4. Magnetic reluctance - Wikipedia

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    The term reluctance was coined in May 1888 by Oliver Heaviside. [1] The notion of "magnetic resistance" was first mentioned by James Joule in 1840. [2] The idea for a magnetic flux law, similar to Ohm's law for closed electric circuits, is attributed to Henry Augustus Rowland in an 1873 paper. [3]

  5. Sentence word - Wikipedia

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    For example, a person saying the Japanese word e.g. "はい" (/haɪ/) = 'yes' on a high level pitch would command attention. Pronouncing the same word using a mid tone, could represent an answer to a roll-call. Finally, pronouncing this word with a low pitch could signify acquiescence: acceptance of something reluctantly. [16]

  6. Reluctantly Queer - Wikipedia

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    Reluctantly Queer is a short film directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu. [1] The eight-minute epistolary film tells the story of a young Ghanaian man who struggles to reconcile his love for his mother with his same-sex desires.

  7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  8. The Case for Reparations - Wikipedia

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    Ta-Nehisi Coates "The Case for Reparations" is an article written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published in The Atlantic in 2014. The article focuses on redlining and housing discrimination through the eyes of people who have experienced it and the devastating effects it has had on the African-American community.

  9. List of English words without rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. . The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwa