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91color — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English colour, from Anglo French, from Latin color; akin to Latin celare to conceal more at hell Date: 13th century 1. a. a phenomenon of light (as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual… …
92flimsy — I. adjective (flimsier; est) Etymology: perhaps alteration of 1film + sy (as in tricksy) Date: circa 1702 1. a. lacking in physical strength or substance < flimsy silks > b. of inferior materials and workmanship 2 …
93slick — I. verb Etymology: Middle English sliken, from Old English *slician; akin to Old High German slīhhan to glide Date: 14th century transitive verb to make sleek or smooth intransitive verb spruce usually used with up II. adjective …
94Burning-glass — A burning glass is a large convex lens that can concentrate the sun s rays onto a small area, heating up the area and thus resulting in ignition of the exposed surface. They were used in 18th century chemical studies for burning materials in… …
95Dimensional analysis — In physics and all science, dimensional analysis is a tool to find or check relations among physical quantities by using their dimensions. The dimension of a physical quantity is the combination of the basic physical dimensions (usually mass,… …
96D. B. Cooper — A 1972 F.B.I. composite drawing of D. B. Cooper Other names Dan Cooper Occupation Unknown Known for …
97Extraterrestrial life — For fiction, see Extraterrestrials in fiction. For other uses, see Alien (disambiguation). A 1967 Soviet Union 16 kopeks postage stamp, depicting a satellite from an imagined extraterrestrial civilization …
98Fictional language — Fictional languages are by far the largest group of artistic languages. Fictional languages are intended to be the languages of a fictional world, and are often designed with the intent of giving more depth and an appearance of plausibility to… …
99Faster-than-light — (also superluminal or FTL) communications and travel refer to the propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light. Science fiction style space travel, dubbed true FTL, defies known physics.Under the special theory of… …
100Gilles Deleuze — Full name Gilles Deleuze Born 18 January 1925 Paris, France Died 4 November 1995(1995 11 04) (aged 70) Paris, France …
