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FORTRAN

(Encyclopedia)FORTRAN: see programming language. ...

LISP

(Encyclopedia)LISP: see programming language.

kinesics

(Encyclopedia)kinesics: see body language.

landsmaal

(Encyclopedia)landsmaal: see Norwegian language. ...

Pascal

(Encyclopedia)Pascal: see programming language. ...

BASIC

(Encyclopedia)BASIC: see programming language. ...

Plattdeutsch

(Encyclopedia)Plattdeutsch: see German language. ...

Latvian

(Encyclopedia)Latvian or Lettish lĕtˈĭsh [key], a language belonging to the Baltic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Baltic languages). The mother tongue of close to 3 million persons livin...

Komi

(Encyclopedia)Komi kōˈmē, kôˈ– [key], Finnic people of the northeastern part of European Russia. There are two traditional branches of the Komi—Zyrians and Permyaks. The Zyrians are now officially called K...

synonym

(Encyclopedia)synonym sĭnˈənĭm [key] [Gr.,=having the same name], word having a meaning that is the same as or very similar to the meaning of another word of the same language. Some are alike in some meanings o...

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