• a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data
• kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food
• A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.
• A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
• The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
• A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
• (urban toponymy) A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
• The arithmetic mean.
• Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
• (marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
• Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
• Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
• An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
• (in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
• The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
• To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
• To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
• To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
• To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
• To split.
• Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
• To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.
noun
• A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
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