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hill
A topographic surname​ for someone who lived on or by a hill.
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  1. A topographic surname​ for someone who lived on or by a hill.
  2. (Slang, Baseball) The pitcher's mound
  3. A well-defined natural elevation smaller than a mountain.
slope
The slope of the tangent line to a given curve at a designated point
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  1. The slope of the tangent line to a given curve at a designated point
  2. A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline:
  3. A piece of ground that is not flat or level; rising or falling ground; specif., a portion of the side of a hill or mountain
inclined-plane
One of the simple machines; a sloping surface such as a ramp such that an object can be raised with less effort than being lifted vertically.
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  1. One of the simple machines; a sloping surface such as a ramp such that an object can be raised with less effort than being lifted vertically.
  2. A plane set at an angle to the horizontal, especially a simple machine used to raise or lower a load by rolling or sliding.
  3. A plane surface set at any angle other than a right angle against a horizontal surface: it is a simple machine that increases mechanical advantage but requires a longer working distance
gradient
The degree to which something inclines; a slope. A mountain road with a gradient of ten percent rises one foot for every ten feet of horizontal length.
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  1. The degree to which something inclines; a slope. A mountain road with a gradient of ten percent rises one foot for every ten feet of horizontal length.
  2. The degree of such slope
  3. A slope, as of a road or railroad
slant
A personal point of view or opinion:
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  1. A personal point of view or opinion:
  2. A sloping thing or piece of ground.
  3. An oblique or inclined surface, line, direction, etc.; slope; incline
inclination
The extent or degree of incline from a horizontal or vertical position, course, etc.
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  1. The extent or degree of incline from a horizontal or vertical position, course, etc.
  2. A deviation or the degree of deviation from the horizontal or vertical; a slant:
  3. An inclined surface; a slope.
pitch
A steep downward slope.
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  1. A steep downward slope.
  2. The rising and falling of the bow and stern of a ship in a rough sea
  3. (Archit.) The slope of the sides of a roof, expressed by the ratio of its height to its span
ascent
The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.
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  1. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.
  2. An upward slope or incline.
  3. (Typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
descent
A downward incline or passage; a slope:
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  1. A downward incline or passage; a slope:
  2. An instance of descending
  3. A downward slope
obliquity
The angle or extent of such a deviation.
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  1. The angle or extent of such a deviation.
  2. (Math.) Deviation of a line or plane from the perpendicular or parallel
  3. The quality or condition of being oblique, especially in deviating from a vertical or horizontal line, plane, position, or direction.
tangent
The length of a straight line tangent to a curve, measured from the point of tangency to the intersection of the tangent line with the x-axis
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  1. The length of a straight line tangent to a curve, measured from the point of tangency to the intersection of the tangent line with the x-axis
  2. The trigonometric function of an acute angle in a right triangle that is the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle.
  3. (Music) An upright pin in a keyboard instrument, especially in a clavichord, that rises to sound a string when a key is depressed and stops the string at a preset length to set the pitch.
ramp
A sloping runway for launching boats, as from trailers
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  1. A sloping runway for launching boats, as from trailers
  2. A wild leek (Allium tricoccum) having a pair of broad basal leaves in spring, followed by a naked flower stalk: its strongly flavored bulbs are edible
  3. A concave bend of a handrail where a sharp change in level or direction occurs, as at a stair landing.
upgrade
An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology
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  1. An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology
  2. An upward incline.
  3. An upward slope, esp. in a road
acclivity
An upward slope of ground
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  1. An upward slope of ground
  2. An upward slope, as of a hill.
declivity
A downward slope, as of a hill.
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  1. A downward slope, as of a hill.
downgrade
A decline, as in fortune, status, or condition:
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  1. A decline, as in fortune, status, or condition:
  2. A lowering in rank, value, etc.
  3. A descending slope, as in a road.
climb
A place to be climbed:
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  1. A place to be climbed:
  2. An act or instance of climbing; rise; ascent
  3. An act of climbing; an ascent:
elevation
Height above a surface, as of the earth
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  1. Height above a surface, as of the earth
  2. (Geog.) Height above sea level; altitude
  3. The ability to achieve height in a jump, as in ballet.
height
The condition or attribute of being relatively or sufficiently high or tall:
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  1. The condition or attribute of being relatively or sufficiently high or tall:
  2. Elevation or distance above a given level, as above the surface of the earth or sea; altitude
  3. The point of highest intensity; the climax:
fill
A piece of land artificially raised to a required level, as a railroad embankment
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  1. A piece of land artificially raised to a required level, as a railroad embankment
  2. Anything that fills or is used to fill; esp., earth, gravel, etc. used for filling a hole or depression
  3. An amount needed to make full, complete, or satisfied:
causeway
A paved highway.
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  1. A paved highway.
  2. (Obs.) A paved way or road; highway
  3. A raised path or road, as across wet ground or water
dike
(--- Chiefly British) A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.
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  1. (--- Chiefly British) A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.
  2. An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods or to hold irrigation water in for agricultural purposes.
  3. A body of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjoining rock, usually as a result of the intrusion of magma. Dikes are often of a different composition from the rock they cut across. They are usually on the order of centimeters to meters across and up to tens of kilometers long.
class
The period during which such a group meets:
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  1. The period during which such a group meets:
  2. (--- Informal) Elegance of style, taste, and manner:
  3. A grade of mail:
category
A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially:
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  1. A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially:
  2. A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.
  3. A class or division in a scheme of classification
classification
The systematic grouping of organisms according to the structural or evolutionary relationships among them. Organisms are normally classified by observed similarities in their body and cell structure or by evolutionary relationships based on the analysis of sequences of their DNA.
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  1. The systematic grouping of organisms according to the structural or evolutionary relationships among them. Organisms are normally classified by observed similarities in their body and cell structure or by evolutionary relationships based on the analysis of sequences of their DNA.
  2. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
  3. A category or class.
class
A grade of mail:
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  1. A grade of mail:
  2. (--- Informal) Elegance of style, taste, and manner:
  3. The subject material taught to or studied by such a group:
standard
Any upright object used as a support, often a part of the thing it supports; supporting piece; base; stand
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  1. Any upright object used as a support, often a part of the thing it supports; supporting piece; base; stand
  2. The type, model, or example commonly or generally accepted or adhered to; criterion set for usages or practices
  3. A plant grafted on a single erect stem to grow in tree form
form
A grade in a British secondary school or in some American private schools:
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  1. A grade in a British secondary school or in some American private schools:
  2. Fitness, as of an athlete or animal, with regard to health or training:
  3. Method of arrangement or manner of coordinating elements in verbal or musical composition:
rank
A relative position, usually in a scale classifying persons or things; grade; degree
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  1. A relative position, usually in a scale classifying persons or things; grade; degree
  2. An official position or grade:
  3. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
mixture
One that consists of diverse elements:
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  1. One that consists of diverse elements:
  2. A combination of ingredients, kinds, etc.
  3. A mixing or being mixed
mongrel
An animal or plant resulting from various interbreedings, especially a dog of mixed or undetermined breed.
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  1. An animal or plant resulting from various interbreedings, especially a dog of mixed or undetermined breed.
  2. Something that is a mixture or combination of elements:
  3. Anything produced by indiscriminate mixture
rate
To fix or determine the rates for
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  1. To fix or determine the rates for
  2. To set a rate for (goods to be shipped).
  3. (--- U.S. Navy) To assign a rate to
assort
To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
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  1. To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
  2. To separate into groups according to kind; classify.
  3. To agree in kind; fall into the same class.
degree
(Grammar) One of the forms used in the comparison of adjectives and adverbs. For example, tall is the positive degree, taller the comparative degree, and tallest the superlative degree of the adjective tall.
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  1. (Grammar) One of the forms used in the comparison of adjectives and adverbs. For example, tall is the positive degree, taller the comparative degree, and tallest the superlative degree of the adjective tall.
  2. A step in the direct line of descent
  3. A step or level in the accomplishment of an act or a duty, or in the determination of a relationship. The level of an offense, such as murder and determining the appropriate punishment for it. A step or level in the accomplishment of an act or a duty, or in the determination of a relationship. The level of an offense, such as murder and determining the appropriate punishment for it.
level
An instrument for determining, or adjusting a surface to, an even horizontal plane: the traditional level has a clear tube partly filled with liquid so as to leave an air bubble that moves to the exact center of the tube when the instrument is on an even horizontal plane; often there is another such tube which indicates when the instrument is perpendicular to the horizontal
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  1. An instrument for determining, or adjusting a surface to, an even horizontal plane: the traditional level has a clear tube partly filled with liquid so as to leave an air bubble that moves to the exact center of the tube when the instrument is on an even horizontal plane; often there is another such tube which indicates when the instrument is perpendicular to the horizontal
  2. Position, elevation, or rank considered as one of the planes in a scale of values
  3. A natural or proper position, place, or stage:
peg
A short, usually tapering or pointed piece of wood, metal, etc. used to hold parts together or in place, or to close an opening, as in a barrel
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  1. A short, usually tapering or pointed piece of wood, metal, etc. used to hold parts together or in place, or to close an opening, as in a barrel
  2. A point or prong for tearing, hooking, etc.
  3. A step or degree
point
A specific moment in time:
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  1. A specific moment in time:
  2. A distinct condition or degree:
  3. A stage, condition, level, or degree reached or indicated
rung
Any sturdy stick, bar, or rod, esp. a rounded one, used as a crossbar, support, etc.
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  1. Any sturdy stick, bar, or rod, esp. a rounded one, used as a crossbar, support, etc.
  2. A stage or degree in a scale, as of social acceptance
  3. A rod or bar forming a step of a ladder.
stage
A level, degree, or period of time in the course of a process:
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  1. A level, degree, or period of time in the course of a process:
  2. A place where a stop is made on a journey, esp., formerly, a regular stopping point for a stagecoach
  3. A particular step, phase, or position in a developmental process.
step
A stage in a process:
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  1. A stage in a process:
  2. A low platform used for exercise, as in step aerobics.
  3. A degree in progress or a grade or rank in a scale:
notch
Such a cut used for keeping a record.
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  1. Such a cut used for keeping a record.
  2. (Informal) A level or degree:
  3. (Informal) A step; grade; degree; peg
caliber
The diameter of the bore of a firearm, usually shown in hundredths or thousandths of an inch and expressed in writing or print in terms of a decimal fraction:
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  1. The diameter of the bore of a firearm, usually shown in hundredths or thousandths of an inch and expressed in writing or print in terms of a decimal fraction:
  2. Degree of worth; quality:
  3. Degree of worth or value of a person or thing; quality or ability
class
(--- Informal) Elegance of style, taste, and manner:
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  1. (--- Informal) Elegance of style, taste, and manner:
  2. A quality of accommodation on public transport:
  3. A division based on quality, rank, or grade, as:
quality
High social position:
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  1. High social position:
  2. Those in a high social position:
  3. Superiority of kind:
bracket
A classification or grouping, especially within a sequence of numbers or grades, as a category of incomes sharing the same tax rate.
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  1. A classification or grouping, especially within a sequence of numbers or grades, as a category of incomes sharing the same tax rate.
  2. The interval between the ranges of two rounds of artillery fire, as one over and the other short of the target, used to find the correct range
  3. Either of the pair of signs [ ], or sometimes < >, used to enclose a word or words inserted as for explanation, quantities to be taken as a single quantity, etc.
class
The subject material taught to or studied by such a group:
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  1. The subject material taught to or studied by such a group:
  2. The period during which such a group meets:
  3. (Biology) A taxonomic category ranking below a phylum or division and above an order.
league
(Sports) A group of teams organized to compete against one another
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  1. (Sports) A group of teams organized to compete against one another
  2. A compact or covenant made by nations, groups, or individuals for promoting common interests, assuring mutual protection, etc.
  3. A class or level of competition:
order
A group or class of persons set off from others by some trait or quality
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  1. A group or class of persons set off from others by some trait or quality
  2. A style of building:
  3. A group of persons living under a religious rule:
rank
A relative position, usually in a scale classifying persons or things; grade; degree
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  1. A relative position, usually in a scale classifying persons or things; grade; degree
  2. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
  3. An official position or grade:
tier
Any of a series of rows, layers, ranks, etc. arranged one above or behind another
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  1. Any of a series of rows, layers, ranks, etc. arranged one above or behind another
  2. A row, or rank, of seats
  3. A rank or class.
cant
The tilt, turn, or slant thus caused
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  1. The tilt, turn, or slant thus caused
  2. The special vocabulary of a profession, discipline, or social group; jargon.
  3. The special words and phrases used by those in a certain sect, occupation, etc.; jargon
gradient
A operator on scalar fields yielding a vector function, where the value of the vector evaluated at any point indicates the direction and degree of change of the field at that point.
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  1. A operator on scalar fields yielding a vector function, where the value of the vector evaluated at any point indicates the direction and degree of change of the field at that point.
  2. The degree to which something inclines; a slope. A mountain road with a gradient of ten percent rises one foot for every ten feet of horizontal length.
  3. (Physics) The rate at which a physical quantity, such as temperature or pressure, changes in response to changes in a given variable, especially distance.
heel
(Botany) The basal end of a plant cutting or tuber used in propagation.
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  1. (Botany) The basal end of a plant cutting or tuber used in propagation.
  2. A tilt, as of a boat, to one side.
  3. The built-up portion of a shoe or boot, supporting the heel.
inclination
The difference in direction of two lines, planes, or surfaces as measured by the angle between them; specif., a property of a line in a plane, being the angle measured from the positive portion of the x-axis to the line in question
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  1. The difference in direction of two lines, planes, or surfaces as measured by the angle between them; specif., a property of a line in a plane, being the angle measured from the positive portion of the x-axis to the line in question
  2. Any action, practice, or thing, toward which one is inclined
  3. A characteristic disposition or tendency to act in a certain way; a propensity:
incline
An inclined plane or surface; slope; grade; slant
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  1. An inclined plane or surface; slope; grade; slant
  2. An inclined surface; a slope or gradient:
lean
A tilt or an inclination away from the vertical.
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  1. A tilt or an inclination away from the vertical.
  2. The act or condition of leaning; inclination; slant
  3. Meat containing little or no fat
list
A considerable number; a long series:
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  1. A considerable number; a long series:
  2. A series of names, words, or other items written, printed, or imagined one after the other:
  3. List price
rake
The angle between the cutting edge of a tool and a plane perpendicular to the working surface to which the tool is applied.
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  1. The angle between the cutting edge of a tool and a plane perpendicular to the working surface to which the tool is applied.
  2. A long-handled implement with a row of projecting teeth at its head, used especially to gather leaves or to loosen or smooth earth.
  3. Any of various long-handled tools with teeth or prongs at one end, used for gathering loose grass, hay, leaves, etc., or for smoothing broken ground
slant
A personal point of view or opinion:
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  1. A personal point of view or opinion:
  2. A line, plane, course, or direction that is other than perpendicular or horizontal; a slope.
  3. (Informal) A quick, oblique look; glance
slope
Any inclined line, surface, position, etc.; slant
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  1. Any inclined line, surface, position, etc.; slant
  2. (Mathematics) The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes with respect to a change in the abscissa.
  3. (Math.) The trigonometric tangent of the positive angle formed between a given straight line and the x-axis of a pair of Cartesian coordinates
tilt
The condition or angle of being tilted; slope or slant
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  1. The condition or angle of being tilted; slope or slant
  2. A tendency to favor one side in a dispute:
  3. An inclination from the horizontal or vertical; a slant:
tip
A helpful hint:
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  1. A helpful hint:
  2. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. [From mid-19th c.]
  3. A piece of secret information given confidentially in an attempt to be helpful
categorize
To put into a category or categories; classify.
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  1. To put into a category or categories; classify.
  2. To assign a category; to divide into classes.
  3. To place in a category; classify
class
To put in a class; classify
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  1. To put in a class; classify
  2. A taxonomic category of organisms ranking above an order and below a phylum or division. In modern taxonomic schemes, the names of classes end in –phyceae for the various groups of algae, –mycetes for fungi, and –opsida for plants (as in Liliopsida, the class of plants also termed monocotyledons). The names of classes belonging to phyla of the animal kingdom, however, are formed in various ways, as Osteichthyes the bony fishes, Aves, the birds, and Mammalia, the mammals, all of which are classes belonging to the subphylum Vertebrata (the vertebrates) in the phylum Chordata.
  3. To arrange, group, or rate according to qualities or characteristics; assign to a class; classify.
classify
To arrange or group in classes according to some system or principle
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  1. To arrange or group in classes according to some system or principle
  2. To arrange or organize according to class or category.
  3. To place in a class or category
distribute
To apportion so as to be evenly spread throughout a given area:
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  1. To apportion so as to be evenly spread throughout a given area:
  2. (Logic) To use (a term) so as to include all individuals or entities of a given class.
  3. To place in separate pieces or examples over an area; scatter:
group
(Mathematics) A set with an operation whose domain is all ordered pairs of members of the set, such that the operation is binary (operates on two elements) and associative, the set contains the identity element of the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element for the operation. The positive and negative integers and zero form a set that is a group under the operation of ordinary addition, since zero is the identity element of addition and the negative of each integer is its inverse. Groups are used extensively in quantum physics and chemistry to model phenomena involving symmetry and invariance.
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  1. (Mathematics) A set with an operation whose domain is all ordered pairs of members of the set, such that the operation is binary (operates on two elements) and associative, the set contains the identity element of the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element for the operation. The positive and negative integers and zero form a set that is a group under the operation of ordinary addition, since zero is the identity element of addition and the negative of each integer is its inverse. Groups are used extensively in quantum physics and chemistry to model phenomena involving symmetry and invariance.
  2. To belong to or form a group:
  3. To place or arrange in a group:
pigeonhole
To put in the pigeonhole of a desk, etc.
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  1. To put in the pigeonhole of a desk, etc.
  2. To assign to a category or categories; classify
  3. To place or file in a small compartment or recess.
place
To appoint to a post:
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  1. To appoint to a post:
  2. To be among those who finish a competition or race, especially to finish second.
  3. To arrange for the publication or display of:
range
The difference between the smallest and largest values in a set of data. If the lowest test score of a group of students is 54 and the highest is 94, the range is 40.
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  1. The difference between the smallest and largest values in a set of data. If the lowest test score of a group of students is 54 and the highest is 94, the range is 40.
  2. To look over something or around an area or place:
  3. To place with others in a cause, party, etc.
rank
To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on:
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  1. To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on:
  2. (Archaic) To form a rank or move in ranks
  3. To place in a rank or ranks
rate
(Informal) To have status, importance, or influence:
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  1. (Informal) To have status, importance, or influence:
  2. To put into a particular class or rank
  3. To place in a particular class, rank, or grade:
mark
To give attention to; notice:
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  1. To give attention to; notice:
  2. To keep (score, etc.); record
  3. (--- Sports & Games) To record (the score) in various games.
score
(Sports & Games) To achieve or gain in a game or contest:
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  1. (Sports & Games) To achieve or gain in a game or contest:
  2. To record or add (points) to one's score
  3. To record or enter the score of
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  • I don't know how you keep such a high grade average.

  • That jug is grade double A light.

  • This is so much higher than my grade level I'm getting a nose bleed.

  • There would then have been less disturbance owing to the breath of the players and heat of the theatres or concert-rooms. It would be a great advantage to get this higher grade generally adopted.

  • The lower the grade the more elaborate and expensive is the machinery required to clean it, and consequently a spinner is willing to pay a certain amount extra for high grade cotton in order to save expenditure on preparatory machinery.

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