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proper noun
- A town in Picardy, France.
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| Abbevillian |
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adjective - (archaeology) of, or relating to any of various early Paleolithic sites in France that are characterized by the presence of bifacial stone axes
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| Acheulean |
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adjective - (archaeology) Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes
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| alignment |
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noun
- An arrangement of items in a line.
- The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
- An alliance of factions.
- (astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
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| Anasazi |
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proper noun
- a Native American people who once lived in cliff-dwellings in Utah and Colorado
- the language once spoken by these people
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| Angkor Wat |
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proper noun
- a complex of temples in Cambodia
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| ansa |
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noun (ans, ae)
- (astronomy) the most protruding part of planetary rings as seen from distance
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| archaeological |
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adjective
- Relating to the science or research of archaeology.
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| archaeology |
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noun
- The scientific study of the material remains of the past and of the life and culture of ancient peoples. One of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
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| ASP |
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initialism - Active Server Pages
- Application Service Provider
- An extensible baton, used by police and security officers. From the name of the manufacturer: Amalgamated Security Products.
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| assemblage |
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noun
- A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
- 1749 But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs together, shift and wriggle about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detached legions of burning, subtile, stimulating spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of , where their titillation raged so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them. " John Cleland, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=167947003&tag=Cleland,+John,+1709-1789.:+Memoirs+of+Fanny+Hill,+1749&query=assemblage&id=CleMemo Memoirs of Fanny Hill''
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| Aterian |
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adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Atlas mountains; especially to a style of Paleolithic stone tool from this region
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