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MICRA, Inc. is a small corporation in New Jersey primarily concerned with building lexical databases for use in Natural Language Understanding.
The act of sharpening.
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Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
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A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
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Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
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A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.
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A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.
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The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.
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The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
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ad
As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.
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An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
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