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area (AIR ee uh)
1. Surface; extent or range, zone, space: "The apple orchid covers a large area of the farm."
2. Region, locality, terrain, territory, district: "Alligators are found in marshy areas."
3. Field, sphere, realm, scope: "France has always excelled in the area of the arts."
2. Region, locality, terrain, territory, district: "Alligators are found in marshy areas."
3. Field, sphere, realm, scope: "France has always excelled in the area of the arts."
area, aria
area (AIR ee uh) (noun)
1. Surface; space: The apple orchard covers a large area of the farm.
2. Region, territory, district: Alligators are found in this marshy area.
3. Field, sphere, realm: France has always excelled in the area of the arts.
2. Region, territory, district: Alligators are found in this marshy area.
3. Field, sphere, realm: France has always excelled in the area of the arts.
aria (AH ri uh) (noun)
A melody sung solo or as a duet in an opera, oratorio, or cantata: The two singers closed the concert with an aria.
The area of the stage and auditorium was vast; fortunately, Ramona’s voice was strong as she sang the lovely aria and everyone could hear and appreciate each note.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group A; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
(page 7)
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(Latin: room, area, distance, stretch of time; space)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; Gallia, the Latin name for the area that became France after the fall of the Roman Empire; metal)
(Latin: city: big town, metropolitan area; citizen: a legal resident or inhabitant)
(Greek: an eating, or gnawing, sore ending in mortification, necrosis, or the death of bodily tissue; usually the result of ischemia or the loss of blood supply to the affected area, bacterial invasion, and subsequent putrefaction)
(Latin: belonging to a country; born in a country; native to a geographical area)
(Greek > Modern Latin: throat, upper part of the windpipe; the vocal-chord area of the throat; the musculocartilaginous structure below the tongue root and hyoid bone and above the trachea)
(Latin: originally, country area, province; villager; more recent meanings: heathen, atheist; idolatrous, idol worshippers; heretic, heretical)
(Greek: ball, round, around; globe, global; body of globular form; by extension, circular zone, circular area)
(Greek > Latin: inner room, bedchamber; so called by Galen because chambers at the base of the brain were thought to supply animal spirits to the optic nerves; thalamus, the middle part of the diencephalon (the area in the center of the brain just above the brain stem that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus) which relays sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex of the brain)
(GPS needed more accuracy; so, now we have WAAS)
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electronic confusion area
1. An area on a radar screen which a target appears to occupy according to a particular radar beam.
2. The amount of space in which a target appears to occupy in a radar resolution cell, as it appears to that radar beam.
2. The amount of space in which a target appears to occupy in a radar resolution cell, as it appears to that radar beam.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
(page 60)
fus-, fun-, fund-, fut-, found-
(page 3)
-tron, -tronic, -tronics +
(page 7)
geographic area
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grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia
(page 36)
Any part or portion of the Earth's surface which has been delimited or recognized by some particular characteristic: A geographical area is a region of land that can be considered as a unit for the purposes of some geographical classification.
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geo-, ge- +
(page 10)
grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia
(page 36)
Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
mechanical area
1. Those areas within a building that include equipment rooms and passages through which air circulates and where piping, communication, hoisting, conveying, and electrical services are installed.
2. The areas in a building that include equipment rooms, shafts, stacks, tunnels, and closets used for heating, ventilating, air conditioning, piping, communication, hoisting, conveying, and electrical services.
2. The areas in a building that include equipment rooms, shafts, stacks, tunnels, and closets used for heating, ventilating, air conditioning, piping, communication, hoisting, conveying, and electrical services.
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mechano-, mechan-; mechanico-; machin-
(page 3)
1. The sensory area for olfaction lying in the hippocampal gyrus of the brain.
2. The area of nasal mucosa in which the olfactory organ is situated.
2. The area of nasal mucosa in which the olfactory organ is situated.
One olfactory area is at the base of the brain through which numerous small branches of the anterior and middle cerebral arteries enter the depth of the cerebral hemisphere.
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olfacto-, olfact-
(page 1)
ruricole (verb), ruricoles; ruricoled; ruricoling: fields, country area
Living in the country or in fields.
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-cola, -colas; -cole; -colent; -colid; -coline; -colous
(page 22)
A region of the body where sebaceous glands are numerous: Seborrheic areas, for example, are the scalp, the sides of the nose, the chin, the center of the chest, the back, the axilla (armpits), and the groins.
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-rrhea, -rrhoea, -orrhea +
(page 7)
sebo-, seb-, sebi- +
(page 2)
visuopsychic area
The area of the cerebral (brain) cortex concerned with visuognosis or the recognition and interpretation of visual impressions.
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vid-, video-, vis-, -vision, -visional, -visionally, visuo-, vu-
(page 18)
Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)
WAAS.
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Information Technology (IT): Units Listed
(page 2)
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area
The measurement or extent of a two-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary: "The area of a triangle."
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Measurements and Mathematics Terms
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“area”
core area
A nation's or a culture's historic homeland.
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Geography Terms +
(page 4)
New Additions to the Search Area
A great deal of effort has been made since the last newsletter to include new words and definitions with some of the Latin and/or Greek elements in the search area. Such additions are indicated below for your consideration. Let me know if you have any desires for specific Latin and/or Greek word groups. So much to do and so little time to get them done.
There are thousands of English words that are derived from Latin and Greek sources which can be found by doing searches at this Cross-References Search page.
Again, if you don’t see what you would like to have, you are urged to let me know which Latin and/or Greek elements and related words and definitions you would like to see.
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Focusing on Words Newsletter #07
(page 1)
projected area
The net south-facing glazing area projected on a vertical plane.
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Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms +
(page 17)