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101Fra — noun Etymology: Italian, short for frate, from Latin frater more at brother Date: 1722 used as a title equivalent to brother preceding the name of an Italian monk or friar …
102frontispiece — noun Etymology: Middle French frontispice, from Late Latin frontispicium facade, from Latin front , frons + i + specere to look at more at spy Date: circa 1598 1. a. the principal front of a building b. a decorated pediment over a portico or… …
103front matter — noun Date: circa 1909 matter preceding the main text of a book …
104half-life — noun Date: 1907 1. the time required for half of something to undergo a process: as a. the time required for half of the atoms of a radioactive substance to become disintegrated b. the time required for half the amount of a substance (as a drug,… …
105half title — noun Date: 1879 the title of a book appearing alone on a right hand page immediately preceding the title page; also the page itself …
106ides — noun plural but singular or plural in construction Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin idus Date: 14th century the 15th day of March, May, July, or October or the 13th day of any other month in the ancient Roman calendar;… …
107incremental repetition — noun Date: 1918 repetition in each stanza (as of a ballad) of part of the preceding stanza usually with a slight change in wording for dramatic effect …
108interference — noun Date: 1783 1. a. the act or process of interfering b. something that interferes ; obstruction 2. the mutual effect on meeting of two wave trains (as of light or sound) that constitutes alternating areas of increased and decreased amplitude… …
109leptotene — noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1912 a stage of meiotic prophase immediately preceding synapsis in which the chromosomes appear as fine discrete threads • leptotene adjective …
110Markov chain — noun Etymology: A. A. Markov died 1922 Russian mathematician Date: 1938 a usually discrete stochastic process (as a random walk) in which the probabilities of occurrence of various future states depend only on the present state of the system or… …
