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centavo
(definition)
n 1: a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El
Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina
and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican
Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and
Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the
Philippines and Portugal
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octavo
(definition)
n 1: the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet
of paper three times to form eight leaves [syn: octavo,
eightvo, 8vo]
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salvo
(definition)
n 1: an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the
release of bombs
2: rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from
the left flank caught them by surprise" [syn: fusillade,
salvo, volley, burst]
3: a sudden outburst of cheers; "there was a salvo of approval"
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servo
(definition)
adj 1: of or involving servomechanisms [syn: servomechanical,
servo]
n 1: control system that converts a small mechanical motion into
one requiring much greater power; may include a negative
feedback system [syn: servo, servomechanism,
servosystem]
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au
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent)
metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and
alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but
is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au,
atomic number 79]
2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system;
equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun
(approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
[syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]
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provo
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a city in north central Utah settled by Mormons
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pavo
(definition)
n 1: a small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana
and Ara
2: peafowl [syn: Pavo, genus Pavo]
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kosovo
(definition)
n 1: a Serbian province in southern Serbia and Montenegro
populated predominantly by Albanians
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rilievo
(definition)
n 1: sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to
stand out from the surrounding background [syn: relief,
relievo, rilievo, embossment, sculptural relief]
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antananarivo
(place)
(definition)
n 1: the capital and largest city of Madagascar [syn:
Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar]
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aux
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vivo
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savo
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scavo
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spavo
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cannavo
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gustavo
(name)
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schiavo
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siravo
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loschiavo
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arvo
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zemstvo