Word of the Day — Archive Page #13

August 23, 2024

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What does fusty mean?

fusty, musty, frowsty(adj)

stale and unclean smelling

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August 22, 2024

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What does reify mean?

reify(verb)

consider an abstract concept to be real

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August 21, 2024

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What does balayage mean?

Balayage

In potential theory, a mathematical discipline, balayage (from French: balayage "scanning, sweeping") is a method devised by Henri Poincaré for reconstructing a harmonic function in a domain from its values on the boundary of the domain.In modern terms, the balayage operator maps a measure μ on a closed domain D to a measure ν on the boundary ∂ D, so that the Newtonian potentials of μ and ν coincide outside D. The procedure is called balayage since the mass is "swept out" from D onto the boundary. For x in D, the balayage of δx yields the harmonic measure νx corresponding to x. Then the value of a harmonic function f at x is equal to f ( x ) = ∫ ∂ D f ( y ) d ν x ( y ) . {\displaystyle f(x)=\int _{\partial D}f(y)\,d\nu _{x}(y).}

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August 20, 2024

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What does hoopla mean?

ballyhoo, hoopla, hype, plug(noun)

blatant or sensational promotion

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August 19, 2024

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What does parry mean?

parry(noun)

(fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword

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August 18, 2024

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What does calligraphic mean?

calligraphic, calligraphical(adj)

of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy

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August 17, 2024

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What does ablution mean?

ablution(noun)

the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels

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