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supersaturation
English
Etymology
super- +? saturation
Noun
supersaturation (countable and uncountable, plural supersaturations)
- (physics) The condition of a solution being more highly concentrated than is normally possible.
- (physics) the condition of a vapour having a higher saturation vapour pressure than is normally possible.
- (physiology) The condition of a solution of gases in a tissue having a higher concentration in terms of sum of partial pressures than the ambient pressure.
Related terms
- supersaturated
Derived terms
- desupersaturation
Translations
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plethora
English
Etymology
From Late Latin pl?th?ra, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pl?th?r?, “fullness, satiety”), from ????? (pl?th?, “to be full”) +? -? (-?, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pl??th?r?, pl??dh?r?, pl?thô?r?, IPA(key): /?pl?????/, /?pl?ð???/, /pl???????/
- (General American) enPR: pl??th?r?, IPA(key): /?pl?????/
- Rhymes: -????
Noun
plethora (plural plethorae or plethoras)
- (usually followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
- 1817, Francis Jeffrey, review of Lalla Rookh, in the Edinburgh Review
- He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
- 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage
- I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent.
- 1927, H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction)
- Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German.
- 1986, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, Randy Newman, ¡Three Amigos! (film)
- Jefe: We have many beautiful piñatas for your birthday celebration, each one filled with little surprises!
- El Guapo: How many piñatas?
- Jefe: Many piñatas, many!
- El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?
- Jefe: A what?
- El Guapo: A plethora.
- Jefe: Oh yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.
- El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
- Jefe: Why, El Guapo?
- El Guapo: Well, you just told me that I had a plethora, and I would just like to know if you know what it means to have a plethora. I would not like to think that someone would tell someone else he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.
- Jefe: El Guapo, I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education, but could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?
- 1817, Francis Jeffrey, review of Lalla Rookh, in the Edinburgh Review
- (medicine) Chronic excess of blood in the skin, usually in the face.
Synonyms
- (excess, abundance): glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slew
Related terms
- plethoric
Translations
See also
- myriad
References
- “plethora” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Pronounced: /?pl???r?/, /pl?????r?/.
Anagrams
- Althorpe, traphole, tropheal
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (pl?th?r?, “fullness, satiety”), from ????? (pl?th?, “to be full”) +? -? (-?, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
(Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ple?to.ra/, [pl??t?????]
Noun
pl?th?ra f (genitive pl?th?rae); first declension
- (Late Latin) plethora
Inflection
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- ? English: plethora
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