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obituary collapse: a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography

dialectics collapse: a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces

corpus delicti collapse: the body of evidence that constitute the offence; the objective proof that a crime has been committed (sometimes mistakenly thought to refer to the body of a homicide victim)

lore collapse: knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote; "early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend"

mummy collapse: a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)

cerebrum collapse: anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans

cerebellum collapse: a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans

speculation collapse: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he dismissed it as mere conjecture"; an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits; "he knew the stock was a speculation when he bought it"

analysis collapse: an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole; the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations; a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation; a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed; the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'

holding company collapse: a company with controlling shares in other companies

redundancy collapse: repetition of an act needlessly; the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"; (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails; repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission

rationale collapse: (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines"

biography collapse: an account of the series of events making up a person's life

node collapse: (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network; any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part; (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane; (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system; any thickened enlargement; a connecting point at which several lines come together

cake collapse: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate"; made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs

majority collapse: the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished"; (elections) more than half of the votes; the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs

pi collapse: the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet; the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle; approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846...

mummification collapse: embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy; a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic mummification in red tape"

italic collapse: a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right; a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right; a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative; of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects"; characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters"

doctrine collapse: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

pantheism collapse: the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God; (rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods

bodily collapse: having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily existence"; affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"; of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"; in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"

lodestar collapse: something that serves as a model or guide; guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation of astronomy

at large collapse: in a general fashion; "he talked at large about his plans"

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