English words for '(mathematics, computing) A binary tree in which each node has exactly two or zero children.'
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noun
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
noun
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
verb
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
- (mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.
- A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
- Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).
- (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
- (figurative) An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.
- Anything derived from or caused by something.
- (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
- (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
- (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
- a young person of either sex
- a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
- an immature childish person
- a member of a clan or tribe
noun
- (computing) A tree-like structure in which each child can have multiple parents.
- Clipping of multiplex.
- (Canada) A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
- (computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
noun
- (mathematics, computer science) The maximum number of child nodes that any node in a given tree (data structure) may have.
- (logic, mathematics, computer science) The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.
- (Lojban grammar) the number of arguments (in Lojban grammar called sumti) specified in the definition of a selbri. (the selbri combined with the sumti make up a bridi).
- the number of arguments that a function can take
noun
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
adv
verb
noun
noun
- (mathematics) An ordered tree, a type of graph, in which the child nodes of each vertex have a definite number assigned.
- Any of various trees of the genus Platanus.
- any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits
noun
adj
adv
noun
- (computing) A key value used to identify where to split the children of a parent node in a B-tree or similar data structure.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic key that is divided into two or more values that individually cannot be used to deduce the entire key.
- (engineering) A key split at one end like a split pin, for the same purpose.
noun
- (mathematics) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
- a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- an ardent follower and admirer
verb
- (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- (baseball, intransitive) To strike out.
- (firearms, transitive) To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- (baseball, transitive) To strike out (a batter).
- (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
- (transitive) To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- (figurative) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To winnow grain.
- (rail transport, transitive) To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
- (transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).
- blow away or off with a current of air
- agitate the air
- make (an emotion) fiercer
- strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
noun
- (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.
- (figurative, often in the plural) An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
- (botany, anatomy, also figurative) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.
- an arrangement of branching parts
- a development that complicates a situation
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- a part of a forked or branching shape
noun
- (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
- (taxonomy) The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
- a person's brother or sister
noun
- (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
- Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
- A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
- A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
- A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
- One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
- (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
- (informal) A form of address to a woman.
- Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
- (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
- a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group
- a female person who has the same parents as another person
verb
noun
- (graph theory, of a tree) Given a tree of n nodes, either (1) a unique node whose removal would split the tree into subtrees of fewer than n/2 nodes, or (2) either of a pair of adjacent nodes such that removal of the edge connecting them would split the tree into two subtrees of exactly n/2 nodes.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) An analogue of the centre of gravity of a nonuniform body in which local density is replaced by a specified function (which can take negative values) and the place of the body's shape is taken by the function's domain.
- (statistics, cluster analysis, of a cluster of points) the arithmetic mean (alternatively, median) position of a cluster of points in a coordinate system based on some application-dependent measure of distance.
- (of a finite set of points) the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of a given finite set of points.
- (geometry, specifically, of a triangle) The point of intersection of the three medians of a given triangle; the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of the three vertices.
- (geometry, physics, engineering, of an object or a geometrical figure) The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of mass.
- the center of mass of an object of uniform density
noun
- (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
- The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
- Cherry red.
- The burning tip of a cigarette.
- (cricket, slang) A red cricket ball.
- The wood of a cherry tree.
- (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
- (cricket, slang) A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
- Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
- A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- a red fruit with a single hard stone
- wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
- any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
- a red the color of ripe cherries
adj
noun
- a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
- the act of splitting into two branches
- the place where something divides into two branches
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
noun
noun
- (mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
- (literary) The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
- an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
- (particle physics) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
verb
noun
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
noun
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
verb
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
- (mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.
- A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
- Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).
- (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
- (figurative) An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.
- Anything derived from or caused by something.
- (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
- (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
- (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
- a young person of either sex
- a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
- an immature childish person
- a member of a clan or tribe
noun
- (computing) A tree-like structure in which each child can have multiple parents.
- Clipping of multiplex.
- (Canada) A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
- (computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
noun
- (mathematics, computer science) The maximum number of child nodes that any node in a given tree (data structure) may have.
- (logic, mathematics, computer science) The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.
- (Lojban grammar) the number of arguments (in Lojban grammar called sumti) specified in the definition of a selbri. (the selbri combined with the sumti make up a bridi).
- the number of arguments that a function can take
noun
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
adv
verb
noun
noun
- (mathematics) An ordered tree, a type of graph, in which the child nodes of each vertex have a definite number assigned.
- Any of various trees of the genus Platanus.
- any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits
noun
adj
adv
noun
- (computing) A key value used to identify where to split the children of a parent node in a B-tree or similar data structure.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic key that is divided into two or more values that individually cannot be used to deduce the entire key.
- (engineering) A key split at one end like a split pin, for the same purpose.
noun
- (mathematics) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
- a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- an ardent follower and admirer
verb
- (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- (baseball, intransitive) To strike out.
- (firearms, transitive) To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- (baseball, transitive) To strike out (a batter).
- (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
- (transitive) To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- (figurative) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To winnow grain.
- (rail transport, transitive) To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
- (transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).
- blow away or off with a current of air
- agitate the air
- make (an emotion) fiercer
- strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
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- (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.
- (figurative, often in the plural) An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
- (botany, anatomy, also figurative) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.
- an arrangement of branching parts
- a development that complicates a situation
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- a part of a forked or branching shape
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- (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
- (taxonomy) The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
- a person's brother or sister
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- (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
- Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
- A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
- A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
- A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
- One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
- (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
- (informal) A form of address to a woman.
- Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
- (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
- a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group
- a female person who has the same parents as another person
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- (graph theory, of a tree) Given a tree of n nodes, either (1) a unique node whose removal would split the tree into subtrees of fewer than n/2 nodes, or (2) either of a pair of adjacent nodes such that removal of the edge connecting them would split the tree into two subtrees of exactly n/2 nodes.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) An analogue of the centre of gravity of a nonuniform body in which local density is replaced by a specified function (which can take negative values) and the place of the body's shape is taken by the function's domain.
- (statistics, cluster analysis, of a cluster of points) the arithmetic mean (alternatively, median) position of a cluster of points in a coordinate system based on some application-dependent measure of distance.
- (of a finite set of points) the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of a given finite set of points.
- (geometry, specifically, of a triangle) The point of intersection of the three medians of a given triangle; the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of the three vertices.
- (geometry, physics, engineering, of an object or a geometrical figure) The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of mass.
- the center of mass of an object of uniform density
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- (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
- The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
- Cherry red.
- The burning tip of a cigarette.
- (cricket, slang) A red cricket ball.
- The wood of a cherry tree.
- (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
- (cricket, slang) A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
- Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
- A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- a red fruit with a single hard stone
- wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
- any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
- a red the color of ripe cherries
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- a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
- the act of splitting into two branches
- the place where something divides into two branches
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
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- (mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
- (literary) The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
- an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
- (particle physics) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.