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additive collapse: something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine; characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process"

inverse collapse: something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"; reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect; opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity ; "a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"

windward collapse: the direction from which the wind is coming; on the side exposed to the wind; "the windward islands"; away from the wind; "they were sailing windward"

Rasputin collapse: Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II; was assassinated by Russian noblemen who feared that his debauchery would weaken the monarchy (1872-1916)

vector collapse: a variable quantity that can be resolved into components; any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects"; a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction

proximate collapse: very close in space or time; "proximate words"; "proximate houses"; closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects; "news of his proximate arrival"; "interest in proximate rather than ultimate goals"

side effect collapse: any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"; a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy; "severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug"

Svengali collapse: the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically; someone (usually maleficent) who tries to persuade or force another person to do his bidding

ancestry collapse: inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

relative collapse: an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus); a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"; not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"

extrapolation collapse: an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations; (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values

tenement district collapse: a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses

barrio collapse: an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country; a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)

ghetto collapse: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions; formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"; any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"

skid row collapse: a city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts

kingmaker collapse: an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence; "the Earl of Warwick was the first kingmaker"

kin collapse: group of people related by blood or marriage; a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

lobbyist collapse: someone who tries to persuade legislators to vote for bills that the lobbyists favor

back door collapse: a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position); "he got his job through the back door"; an entrance at the rear of a building; an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains

workhorse collapse: a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor; machine that performs dependably under heavy use; "the IBM main frame computers have been the workhorse of the business world"

detour collapse: a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked); travel via a detour

downtown collapse: of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center; "downtown Manhattan"; "delinquents roaming the downtown streets"; toward or in the lower or central part of town

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