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  • 21set the pace — verb a) To establish the speed for a group to move at, for example in a race. In May 2003, South Africa set the pace by banning thin plastic bags and imposing a tax on thick ones. b) To establish a common goal by example …

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  • 22thick — I. a. 1. Not thin (in measure). 2. Dumpy, squab, squat, plump, bulky, solid. 3. Dense. 4. Dense, gross, inspissate, inspissated, grumous. 5. Misty, cloudy, foggy, hazy, dirty, vaporous, vapory. 6. Turbid, muddy, roiled. 7 …

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  • 23Piecewise syndetic set — In mathematics, piecewise syndeticity is a notion of largeness of subsets of the natural numbers. Let mathcal{P} f(mathbb{N}) denote the set of finite subsets of mathbb{N}. Then a set S sub mathbb{N} is called piecewise syndetic if there exists G …

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  • 24List of exceptional set concepts — This is a list of exceptional set concepts. In mathematics, and in particular in mathematical analysis, it is very useful to be able to characterise subsets of a given set X as small , in some definite sense, or large if their complement in X is… …

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  • 25IP set — In mathematics, an IP set is a set of natural numbers which contains all finite sums of some infinite set.The finite sums of a set D of natural numbers are all those numbers that can be obtained by adding up the elements of some finite nonempty… …

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  • 26Large set (Ramsey theory) — For other uses of the term, see Large set. In Ramsey theory, a set S of natural numbers is considered to be a large set if and only if Van der Waerden s theorem can be generalized to assert the existence of arithmetic progressions with common… …

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  • 27Syndetic set — In mathematics, a syndetic set is a subset of the natural numbers, having the property of bounded gaps : that the sizes of the gaps in the sequence of natural numbers is bounded. DefinitionLet mathcal{P} f(mathbb{N}) denote the set of finite… …

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  • 28heavy-set — ADJ Someone who is heavy set has a large solid body. Syn: thick set …

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  • 29The Thick of It — Format Comedy (political satire) Created by Armando Iannucci …

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  • 30Jeopardy! set evolution — The set of the American television game show Jeopardy! has evolved through a number of iterations during its (non continuous) decades long broadcast history. As the show has matured into a fixture of American popular culture and as display… …

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