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Punctures
- noun - a small hole made by a sharp object
- be pierced or punctured; "The tire punctured"
- cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing; "puncture an air balloon"
- loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object
- make by piercing; "puncture a hole"
- pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into; "puncture a tire"
- reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"
- the act of puncturing or perforating
Puritanic
- adjective - morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
Pyrethrin
- - A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also Pyrethrum camphor.
Pyrethrum
- noun - made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants
- spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
- used in former classifications for plants later placed in genus Chrysanthemum and now often included in genus Tanacetum
- white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
Pyritical
- - Of or pertaining to pyrites; consisting of, or resembling, pyrites.
Quantised
- verb - apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor; "Quantize gravity"
- approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values
Quantises
- verb - apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor; "Quantize gravity"
- approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values
Quantized
- verb - apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor; "Quantize gravity"
- approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values
- of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states
Quantizes
- verb - apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor; "Quantize gravity"
- approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values
Quantongs
- noun - red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam