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(n): any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter

(n): any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions

(n): the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

(n): one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration

(n): the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet

(n): the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech

(adj): used of a single unit or thing; not two or more

(adj): vs. ordinal) -- (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order

noun, pronoun

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7 months ago oroboros said:

I. Chemical element symbol for Iodine.

7 months ago bilby said:

Pity we don't have caps on word entries. In particular the I that comes to mind is, in the words of Sir Humphrey Appleby, "the perpendicular pronoun".

about 1 year ago oroboros said:

Symbol for "imaginary" numbers, i.e., squareroot of -1. A breakthrough concept in the development of mathematics.

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