Fergon
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~ trade name of a drug rich in iron; used to treat some types of anemia
fergusonite
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~ a dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals
feria
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~ a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated; "in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday"
feria
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~ (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
fermat
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~ French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665)
fermata
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~ a musical notation (over a note or chord or rest) that indicates it is to be prolonged by an unspecified amount
fermata
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~ (music) a prolongation of unspecified length on a note or chord or rest
ferment
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~ a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
ferment
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~ a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"
ferment
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~ a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
fermentation
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~ a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
fermentation
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~ a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"
fermentation alcohol
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~ the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
fermenting
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~ a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
fermentologist
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~ a specialist in wine making
fermi
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~ a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
Fermi
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~ Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)
fermion
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~ any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
fermium
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~ a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
fan fern
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~ large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia