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- (figurative) A child.
- A Brussels sprout.
- A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
- An edible variety of such, grown and intended as food; examples include bean, alfalfa, kale, and others.
- A bean sprout.
- A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
- a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
- any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
verb
- (transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.
- (horticulture, intransitive) To grow from seed; to germinate.
- (figurative, intransitive) To emerge or appear haphazardly.
- (transitive) To deprive of sprouts.
- (figurative, intransitive) To emerge haphazardly from a surface.
- (intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
noun
- (colloquial) A small child.
- (finance) The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
- The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
- (computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.
- (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
- (phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
- the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
noun
noun
- (colloquial, humorous) Infants; children.
- (uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops.
- Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
- A regiment of infantry.
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
noun
noun
- a coverall worn by children
- (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump
- an athlete who competes at jumping
- a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing
- a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen
- a person who jumps
- a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections
- a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body
- A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand) A woollen sweater or pullover.
- (Australian rules football) The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
- (rail transport) An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
- (usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.
- (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
- (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
- Ellipsis of smokejumper.
- A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
- (video games) A platform game based around jumping.
- A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- (horology) A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
- A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
- Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- (US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
- (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
verb
adj
noun
- The study of the behaviour and development of children.
- The sub-discipline of soil science that studies soils as a component of natural systems or deals with soil genesis and soil classification, or studies the soil profiles or solum in its natural setting.
- the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children
noun
- The favourite child in a family.
- A person who is kind, sweet, etc., and thus lovable; a pet, a sweetheart; also, an animal or thing which is cute and lovable.
- A favourite.
- (by extension) A person (often a woman) or thing that is very popular with a certain group of people.
- Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.
- a special loved one
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
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verb
noun
adj
noun
noun
- A child aged two.
- (film) Ellipsis of two shot.
- (US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
- The digit/figure 2.
- A playing card featuring two pips.
- Two o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
num
adj
noun
noun
- (informal) A child.
- (informal) A person of very short stature.
- Alternative letter-case form of Munchkin (“domestic cat breed”).
- (roleplaying games) A player who mainly concentrates on increasing their character's power and capabilities.
- (informal) A pet name one used for someone considered adorable, such as a pet, child, or a romantic partner.
- (informal, slang) Synonym of donut hole (“ball-shaped pastry”).
noun
- a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school
- (Philippines) The two levels between nursery and prep; the second and third years of preschool.
- (Canada, US, Australia, India) The elementary school grade before first grade.
- (Canada, US, Australia, India) An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school.
noun
- A child who is thirteen years old.
- (poetry) A thirteen-syllable line or series of lines in a poem.
- (cricket) A hit for thirteen runs.
- (US, climbing) A mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet (about 4,000 metres) but less than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
- (card games, especially bridge) The last playing card of a suit left after the other twelve have been played.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.
- (Australian slang) To laugh.
- (transitive) To excrete (something) by defecation.
- To cheat.
- (US, slang) To kill.
- (intransitive) To defecate.
- (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
- (of a bird) To squawk.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (slang) A human child.
- a very troublesome child
- A turbot or flatfish.
- (slang) A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
- (BDSM) A submissive partner who is disobedient and unruly.
- (uncountable, neologism) The qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman.
- (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.
- (derogatory) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
- (informal, chiefly Upper Midwestern US) Bratwurst.
- a small pork sausage
adj
verb
adj
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adv
det
noun
- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
pron
noun
verb
noun
- a very troublesome child
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
adj
noun
noun
- A prepubescent child.
- A two-year-old racehorse.
- (zoology) A sexually immature animal.
- (literature) A publication for young adult readers.
- (criminal law) A person younger than the age of full criminal responsibility, such that the person either cannot be held criminally liable or is subject to less severe forms of punishment.
- A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
- (theater) An actor playing a child's role.
- a young person, not fully developed
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adj
noun
noun
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- (uncountable) Kidskin.
- A young goat.
- (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
- (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
- (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
- Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).
- A young antelope.
- (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
- (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
- (in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
- (informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
- a young person of either sex
- a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
- soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat
- young goat
verb
- (transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To dupe or deceive.
- (reflexive, usually present participle) To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.
- (intransitive) Of a goat: to give birth.
- (transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
- (intransitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To joke.
- (transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To deceive or dupe as a joke.
- tell false information to for fun
- be silly or tease one another
noun
- (informal) A small child.
- (psychology) A child's basic drawing of a human being, having a detailed head but only sticks for the body and limbs.
- (informal, derogatory) An insignificant person.
- (by extension) The aquatic larva of any amphibian.
- A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.
- A type of cargo bike that has two wheels in front and one in back.
- a larval frog or toad
adj
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- easy and not involved or complicated
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- unornamented
- (module theory, of a module) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Easy; not difficult.
- (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (algebra, of a Lie algebra) Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (ring theory, of a ring) Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- (mathematics, real analysis, measure theory, of a real-valued function) Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
- (group theory, of a group) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- (category theory, of an object in a category with a terminal object) Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
- (universal algebra, of an algebraic structure) Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
noun
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
noun
verb
noun
- (figurative) A child.
- A Brussels sprout.
- A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
- An edible variety of such, grown and intended as food; examples include bean, alfalfa, kale, and others.
- A bean sprout.
- A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
- a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
- any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
verb
- (transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.
- (horticulture, intransitive) To grow from seed; to germinate.
- (figurative, intransitive) To emerge or appear haphazardly.
- (transitive) To deprive of sprouts.
- (figurative, intransitive) To emerge haphazardly from a surface.
- (intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
noun
- (colloquial) A small child.
- (finance) The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
- The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
- (computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.
- (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
- (phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
- the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
noun
noun
- (colloquial, humorous) Infants; children.
- (uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops.
- Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
- A regiment of infantry.
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
noun
noun
- a coverall worn by children
- (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump
- an athlete who competes at jumping
- a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing
- a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen
- a person who jumps
- a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections
- a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body
- A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand) A woollen sweater or pullover.
- (Australian rules football) The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
- (rail transport) An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
- (usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.
- (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
- (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
- Ellipsis of smokejumper.
- A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
- (video games) A platform game based around jumping.
- A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- (horology) A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
- A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
- Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- (US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
- (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
verb
noun
- The study of the behaviour and development of children.
- The sub-discipline of soil science that studies soils as a component of natural systems or deals with soil genesis and soil classification, or studies the soil profiles or solum in its natural setting.
- the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children
noun
- The favourite child in a family.
- A person who is kind, sweet, etc., and thus lovable; a pet, a sweetheart; also, an animal or thing which is cute and lovable.
- A favourite.
- (by extension) A person (often a woman) or thing that is very popular with a certain group of people.
- Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.
- a special loved one
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
adj
verb
noun
adj
noun
noun
- A child aged two.
- (film) Ellipsis of two shot.
- (US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
- The digit/figure 2.
- A playing card featuring two pips.
- Two o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
num
adj
noun
noun
- (informal) A child.
- (informal) A person of very short stature.
- Alternative letter-case form of Munchkin (“domestic cat breed”).
- (roleplaying games) A player who mainly concentrates on increasing their character's power and capabilities.
- (informal) A pet name one used for someone considered adorable, such as a pet, child, or a romantic partner.
- (informal, slang) Synonym of donut hole (“ball-shaped pastry”).
noun
- a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school
- (Philippines) The two levels between nursery and prep; the second and third years of preschool.
- (Canada, US, Australia, India) The elementary school grade before first grade.
- (Canada, US, Australia, India) An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school.
noun
- A child who is thirteen years old.
- (poetry) A thirteen-syllable line or series of lines in a poem.
- (cricket) A hit for thirteen runs.
- (US, climbing) A mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet (about 4,000 metres) but less than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
- (card games, especially bridge) The last playing card of a suit left after the other twelve have been played.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.
- (Australian slang) To laugh.
- (transitive) To excrete (something) by defecation.
- To cheat.
- (US, slang) To kill.
- (intransitive) To defecate.
- (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
- (of a bird) To squawk.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (slang) A human child.
- a very troublesome child
- A turbot or flatfish.
- (slang) A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
- (BDSM) A submissive partner who is disobedient and unruly.
- (uncountable, neologism) The qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman.
- (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.
- (derogatory) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
- (informal, chiefly Upper Midwestern US) Bratwurst.
- a small pork sausage
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a very troublesome child
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
adj
noun
noun
- A prepubescent child.
- A two-year-old racehorse.
- (zoology) A sexually immature animal.
- (literature) A publication for young adult readers.
- (criminal law) A person younger than the age of full criminal responsibility, such that the person either cannot be held criminally liable or is subject to less severe forms of punishment.
- A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
- (theater) An actor playing a child's role.
- a young person, not fully developed
adj
noun
noun
- (uncountable) Kidskin.
- A young goat.
- (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
- (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
- (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
- Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).
- A young antelope.
- (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
- (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
- (in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
- (informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
- a young person of either sex
- a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
- soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat
- young goat
verb
- (transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To dupe or deceive.
- (reflexive, usually present participle) To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.
- (intransitive) Of a goat: to give birth.
- (transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
- (intransitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To joke.
- (transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To deceive or dupe as a joke.
- tell false information to for fun
- be silly or tease one another
noun
- (informal) A small child.
- (psychology) A child's basic drawing of a human being, having a detailed head but only sticks for the body and limbs.
- (informal, derogatory) An insignificant person.
- (by extension) The aquatic larva of any amphibian.
- A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.
- A type of cargo bike that has two wheels in front and one in back.
- a larval frog or toad
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adj
adj
adj
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adv
det
noun
- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
pron
adj
noun
adj
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- easy and not involved or complicated
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- unornamented
- (module theory, of a module) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Easy; not difficult.
- (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (algebra, of a Lie algebra) Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (ring theory, of a ring) Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- (mathematics, real analysis, measure theory, of a real-valued function) Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
- (group theory, of a group) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- (category theory, of an object in a category with a terminal object) Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
- (universal algebra, of an algebraic structure) Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
noun
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.