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• Nanotubes: New Way of Producing Electricity

Word of the Day

asterisk • \ASS-tuh-risk\  • noun
: the character * used in printing or writing as a reference mark, as an indication of the omission of letters or words, to denote a hypothetical or unattested linguistic form, or for various arbitrary meanings

Example sentence:
Words in the text that are defined in the glossary are marked with an asterisk for quick reference.

Did you know?
If someone asked you to associate the word "asterisk" with a heavenly body, you would probably have no problem relating it to a star -- even if you didn't know that the word "asterisk" derives from "asteriskos," a Greek word meaning "little star." "Asterisk" has been a part of the constellation of English since at least the late 1300s, but it is far from the only shining star in our language. The Greek forms "astēr," "astro," and "astrum" (all of which mean "star") still cast their light in English by way of such words as "asteroid," "astral," and "disaster" (which originally meant "an unfavorable aspect of a planet or star"). Even "star" itself is a distant relative of "asterisk."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

Last changed March 11 2010 02:19:32. David Coppit, david@coppit.org
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