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umbra collapse: a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light

notion collapse: (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items; "buttons and needles are notions"; a general inclusive concept; an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

on paper collapse: as described in contrast to as practiced; "on paper, this looks like a good idea"; as written or printed; "this is exactly what the composer had set down on paper"

vegetation collapse: inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"; an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart); all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"; the process of growth in plants

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

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

inertia collapse: (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain is state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force

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

noise collapse: incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"; the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"; a loud outcry of protest or complaint; "the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could"; sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"; electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

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

uncluttered collapse: having nothing extraneous; "an uncluttered room"; "the unlittered shoulders of the road"

torpor collapse: a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility; "he fell into a deep torpor"

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

mud flat collapse: a tract of low muddy land near an estuary; covered at high tide and exposed at low tide

law of averages collapse: a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance

time and motion study collapse: an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort

case history collapse: detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment

hypothesis collapse: a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices"; a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations

umbrage collapse: a feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence at my question"

lagoon collapse: a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

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