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“source”
1. The place, person, or thing from which information, products, etc. are obtained: One source of water for the family came from a well in their garden.
2. An informer for a reporter: Mr. Thompson didn't mention the name of his source from whom he got the information for the police.
3. The point of origin of a river or stream: While hiking in the nearby mountains, Jane and Jack found the source of the river that ran through their town.
2. An informer for a reporter: Mr. Thompson didn't mention the name of his source from whom he got the information for the police.
3. The point of origin of a river or stream: While hiking in the nearby mountains, Jane and Jack found the source of the river that ran through their town.
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regi-, reg-, rec-, rex-
(page 11)
source (verb), sources; sourced; sourcing
1. To procure or to obtain: Mr. Jackson finally was able to source a good supply of silk fabric for his firm from another country.
2. To procure information about where something comes: While writing his term paper, Jack had to source for the origin of a quotation he read and wanted to include in his paper.
2. To procure information about where something comes: While writing his term paper, Jack had to source for the origin of a quotation he read and wanted to include in his paper.
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regi-, reg-, rec-, rex-
(page 12)
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(Latin: to rise, arising, to be born, source, original; the rising sun, east; to ascend, to spring up, to become visible, to appear)
(This suffix has no etymological source; it is just a part of other words.)
(Latin: garland, wreath, crown; from a Greek source meaning, "anything curved; a wreath, a garland")
(medicinal plants discovered by traditional societies)
(converting fuel into electricity for power storage)
(Greek Goddess [Hygeia, Hygea, Hygia, Hygieia], the source of the word hygiene)
(Greek: a trickling; oozing; to drip, dripping; denoting a flow of some kind, or from some source)
(Latin: to assign, to allot, to bestow, to give, to grant; from tribe, to give out among the tribes was tribuere which is the source of many of the words located in this unit)
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“source”
electron cyclotron resonance source, ECR source, electron cyclotron resonance ion source, ECRIS
1. A source of multiple charged heavy ions which uses microwave power to increase electron energy to extremely high levels in two magnetic-mirror confinement chambers connected in a series.
2. An electrode supplying current of charged heavy ions that uses microwave power to heat electrons to energies of tens of kilovolts in two magnetic mirror confinement chambers in a series.
2. An electrode supplying current of charged heavy ions that uses microwave power to heat electrons to energies of tens of kilovolts in two magnetic mirror confinement chambers in a series.
Ions formed in the first chamber drift into the second chamber, where they become charged.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
(page 48)
-tron, -tronic, -tronics +
(page 3)
electron-beam ion source, electron beam ion source, EBIS
1. A source of multiple charged heavy ions used by a highly energized electron beam to ionize injected gas.
2. A source of multiple charged heavy ions which uses an intense electron beam with energies of five to ten kiloelectronvolts to successively ionize injected gas.
2. A source of multiple charged heavy ions which uses an intense electron beam with energies of five to ten kiloelectronvolts to successively ionize injected gas.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
(page 55)
-tron, -tronic, -tronics +
(page 5)
Fuel Cells: The Future Source of Fuel Operations?
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Information Technology (IT): Units Listed
(page 1)
gamma-ray source
A quantity of radioactive material that emits gamma radiation and is in a form that is convenient for radiology.
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gamma; Γ, γ +
(page 3)
geothermal heat pump, ground source heat pump (s) (noun); geothermal heat pumps: ground source heat pumps (pl)
Heat pumps which consist of underground coils that transfer heat from the ground to the inside of a building: The large company had a ground source heat pump to heat and to cool their many buildings.
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geo-, ge- +
(page 20)
thermo-, therm-, thermi-, -thermia, -therm, -thermal, -thermic, -thermias, -thermies, -thermous, -thermy
(page 9)
ion source, ion gun, ionization source
A device that ionizes gas molecules and then focuses, accelerates, and emits them as a narrow beam.
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ion, ion- +
(page 3)
original source
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
(page 16)