Strait of Magellan
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~ the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South America before the Panama Canal was built
strait
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~ a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
Strait of Malacca
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~ the strait between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra; it connects the Pacific Ocean to the east with the Indian Ocean to the west and is an important shipping lane
straitjacket
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~ a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
straitjacket
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~ anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket"
straits
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~ a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
straits
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~ a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
strake
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~ thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
Strand
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~ a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
strand
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~ a necklace made by stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"
strand
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~ a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
strand
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~ a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
strand
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~ a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
strand
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~ line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
strange particle
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~ an elementary particle with non-zero strangeness
strange quark
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~ a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1
strange attractor
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~ an attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaotic
strangeness
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~ unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
strangeness
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~ (physics) one of the six flavors of quark