Archives: Word of the day

one of the ropes attached to the foot of a square sail to haul it up to the yard for furling.

of or relating to those aspects of activities such as mining, engineering, building, etc., which are affected by the geology of the terrain in which they are undertaken.

a program for organising large amounts of numerical data in tabular formats, allowing rapid calculations with changing variables.

producing colour.

(in architecture) a convex moulding forming or approximating in section a quarter of a circle or ellipse.

relating to the use or combination of three different colours, as in printing, or in photography in natural colours.

an utterance which constitutes an act, such as promising or requesting, by virtue of being uttered, as I declare this meeting open.

of the nature of homonyms; having the same name.

the complete system of external galaxies, or extragalactic nebulae.

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