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Obsessing
- verb - be preoccupied with something; "She is obsessing over her weight"
- haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"
Obsession
- noun - an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will; "her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly"
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
Obsessive
- adjective - a person who has obsessions
- characterized by or constituting an obsession; "the obsessional character of his response"; "obsessive gambling"
Occasions
- noun - a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
- an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"
- an opportunity to do something; "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"
- give occasion to
- Notable event
- reason; "there was no occasion for complaint"
- something you have to do; "he minded his own specialized occasions"
- the time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th birthday"
Octostyle
- - Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle. See Hexastyle. -- n. An octostyle portico or temple.
Odelsting
- unknown - The parliament of Norway, is divided into the upper house (Lagting), comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting), comprising the rest.
Ohm's Law
- noun - electric current is directly proportional to voltage and inversely proportional to resistance; I = E/R
Oil Shale
- noun - shale from which oil can be obtained by heating
Oil Slick
- noun - a thin film of oil floating on top of water (especially crude oil spilled from a ship)