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affluence (AF loo wuhns; af LOO wuhns) (noun)
An abundance of riches, wealth, or opulence: The ideal economy has enough affluence to benefit everyone.
affluents (AF loo wuhns; af LOO wuhns) (noun)
Applies to people who have large incomes, usually incomes spent freely: The residents of the gated community, including Pete and Helen Box, were obviously affluents who were members of the international jet set.
effluence (EF loo uhns) (noun)
1. The act or process of flowing out: The effluence of enthusiasm of the Labor Day crowd could not be repressed.
2. Something that flows out or forth; the emitting or sending out: The odor of the gas leak became an effluence that made several people ill.
2. Something that flows out or forth; the emitting or sending out: The odor of the gas leak became an effluence that made several people ill.
effluents (EF loo uhns) (noun)
Sewage liquids, or industrial chemicals, that are released as waste: The fish processing factory has been accused of discharging effluents into the river.
influence (IN floo wuhns) (noun)
1. The power of a person or a thing to affect others, seen only in its effect: Special-interest groups have too much influence on the government.
2. The ability to produce effects indirectly by means of power based on wealth, high position, etc.: The office gossip was that Ophelia, who was his secretary, had a strong urge to marry Jim Pendleton, the CEO, not for love, but because of his affluence (wealth) and influence in politics
2. The ability to produce effects indirectly by means of power based on wealth, high position, etc.: The office gossip was that Ophelia, who was his secretary, had a strong urge to marry Jim Pendleton, the CEO, not for love, but because of his affluence (wealth) and influence in politics
The influence of the affluents didn't matter when the city was trying to solve the problem of the effluence of the effluents into the sewer system.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group A; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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1. A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events; especially, one that operates without any direct or apparent effort: There are some people who can have an influence on other people's thinking or actions by means of argument, examples, or force of personality.
2. The power or authority that comes from wealth, social status, or position: The supervisor of Jim's company has a significant influence on his employees.
3. In astrology, an emanation that is believed to come from the stars and planets that affects human characteristics, personality, and actions: It is said that an ethereal fluid or supernatural influence issuing from the celestial bodies can affect a human's future, traits, etc.
4. Etymology: from about 1374, an astrological term meaning, "streaming ethereal power from the stars acting upon character or destiny of men"; from Old French influence, "emanation from the stars that acts upon one's character and destiny"; also "a flow of water", from Middle Latin influentia, "a flowing in" (also used in the astrological sense); which came from Latin influentem, influens, present participle of influere, "to flow into"; fromin-, "in" + fluere, "to flow".
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2. The power or authority that comes from wealth, social status, or position: The supervisor of Jim's company has a significant influence on his employees.
3. In astrology, an emanation that is believed to come from the stars and planets that affects human characteristics, personality, and actions: It is said that an ethereal fluid or supernatural influence issuing from the celestial bodies can affect a human's future, traits, etc.
4. Etymology: from about 1374, an astrological term meaning, "streaming ethereal power from the stars acting upon character or destiny of men"; from Old French influence, "emanation from the stars that acts upon one's character and destiny"; also "a flow of water", from Middle Latin influentia, "a flowing in" (also used in the astrological sense); which came from Latin influentem, influens, present participle of influere, "to flow into"; fromin-, "in" + fluere, "to flow".
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-ence, -ency
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fluct-, flucti-, -flux, flu-, flum-, -fluent, -fluence
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(period of greatest Danish influence)
(improved travel methods and communication influence speech patterns)
(Latin: to injure, to hurt; injury, harm, harmful; trauma; a noxious or deleterious agent or influence)
(Latin: to try out, to influence, to test)
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“influence”
electronic fuse, radio-frequency heating, influence fuse, variable-time fuse, vt fuse
1. A fuse that is ignited by a self-contained electronic element; for example, a proximity fuse or an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc., at a predetermined distance from the target.
2. A fuse; such as, the radio proximity fuse, set off by an electronic device incorporated within it.
2. A fuse; such as, the radio proximity fuse, set off by an electronic device incorporated within it.
A fuse that detonates a warhead when the target is within some specified region near the fuse.
Radio, radar, photoelectric, or other devices may be used as activating elements.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
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fluct-, flucti-, -flux, flu-, flum-, -fluent, -fluence
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-tron, -tronic, -tronics +
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A clinical manifestation of certain psychotic disorders: A patient, for example Mike's neighbor Jane, has ideas of influences during which she experiences moments that she might believe that her thoughts are read by other people, that her limbs move without her consent, or that she is under the control of some external force.
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idea, ideas
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influence function
A function describing the effect of individual observations on a statistic.
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fluct-, flucti-, -flux, flu-, flum-, -fluent, -fluence
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funct-, fungi-
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Influence Machine
A device developed by English physicist Francis Hauksbee (1706) which is considered to be the first static electric or frictional electric machine.
It was a mercury-filled glass globe mounted on an axle; and when it was spun around, it would create a mysterious "luminosity" that crackled like lightning when it was touched and attracted metal particles.
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fluct-, flucti-, -flux, flu-, flum-, -fluent, -fluence
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Injurious or traumatic effect or influence: In her medical book, Alice read about a noci-influence that could be anything that had a damaging effect, or the result or outcome itself.
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noci-, noc- +
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sphere of influence
An area of the world dominated politically or economically by a country, or certain countries.
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sphero-, spher-, -sphere-
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influence
1. A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort.
2. Power to sway or to affect someone based on prestige, wealth, ability, or position.
3. To produce an effect on by imperceptible or intangible means; to sway.
2. Power to sway or to affect someone based on prestige, wealth, ability, or position.
3. To produce an effect on by imperceptible or intangible means; to sway.
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Alchemy, an ancient science
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(a science that attempts to discover the fundamental principles of the sciences, the arts, and the world that the sciences and arts influence)