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conative function
Jakobson's functions of language
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Clipping (morphology)
In morphology and linguistics, the reduction of a word to one of its parts
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Intonation (linguistics)
Variation of pitch in speech
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Secant and cosecant
Trigonometric functions
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Inverse trigonometric functions
Inverse function of a trigonometric function
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Asociación de Madres y Padres de Alumnos
Organization
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Metathesis (linguistics)
The rearranging of sounds or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence in linguistics
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Ālep
Phoenician letter “alf” (U+10900), first letter of the Phoenician alphabet
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Antanaclasis
In rhetoric, stylistic scheme of repeating a single word or phrase, but with a different meaning
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Epulis
Human disease
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Convulsion
Medical condition where body muscles contract and relax rapidly and repeatedly
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Action (philosophy)
Something an agent can do or perform
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Locative case
Grammatical case which indicates a location
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Synchysis
Rhetorical device
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Pro re nata
P.R.N., used in medicine to mean “as needed”
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Cognate
Word that has a common etymological origin
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lapsus calami
Lapsus; error made in writing
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Spirit (animating force)
Philosophy and religious concept of the animating essence within humans
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Function (biology)
Reason some object or process occurred in a system that evolved through a process of natural selection