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noun
- The act of deflecting or something deflected.
- The deviation of a needle or other indicator from its previous position.
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noun
- An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; a valve.
- A two-terminal semiconductor device, having a p-n junction, used chiefly as a rectifier.
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verb
- To bring something out of shape
- To give false account of
- In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
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noun (wikipedia, divergence, divergence (operator))
- The degree to which two or more things diverge.
- (mathematics) the operator which maps a function F=(F1, ... Fn) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the number <math>\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial F_i}{\partial x_i}</math>
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noun - A substance added in small amounts to a pure semiconductor material to alter its conductive properties.
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noun (i, unless specified otherwise)
- (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
- (context, uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
- (context, uncountable, slang) Any narcotic or similar drug which produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction.
- (context, uncountable, slang) Any illicit drug.
- (context, uncountable, slang) information, Information.
- What's the latest on the stock market?
- (context, countable, slang) A stupid person.
verb (dopes, doping, doped, doped)
- (context, transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.
- (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
- (context, transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
- (context, slang) To use drugs.
adjective
- (slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
- That shit is !
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noun
- The use of drugs to improve athletic performance.
- The addition of small quantities of an element to a semiconductor to change its characteristics.
verb
- (present participle of, dope)
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noun
- A trip made in a motor vehicle
- It was a long .
- A driveway
- The mansion had a long, tree-lined .
- A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use:
- Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
- (computers) A mass-storage device; as, a disk drive, a DVD drive, a flash drive''
- Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition:
- ''Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had and Caesar as much again.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective:
- Napoleon's on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver
- (baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory (also called line drive)
- A type of public roadway.
- Beverly Hills" most famous street is Rodeo .
- (psychology) desire, Desire or interest.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
verb (drives, driving, drove, driven)
- (defn, English)
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noun
- a tetrode in which the voltage on the screen grid is higher than that on the control grid, causing the plate current to decrease as plate voltage increases; was used in oscillators
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