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patent

[pat-nt, peyt-, peyt-nt] / ˈpæt nt, ˈpeɪt-, ˈpeɪt nt /


NOUN
copyright on an invention
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To investigate, Fujita's team exposed Physcomitrium patens, also known as spreading earthmoss, to a simulated space environment featuring intense UV radiation, extremely high and low temperatures, and vacuum-like conditions.

From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025

Their work, Physcomitrium patens response to elevated CO2 is flexible and determined by and interaction between sugar and nitrogen availability, was recently published in the scientific journal New Phytologist.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023

This research offers a framework for comparing the eCO2 responses of P. patens with other plant groups.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023

The word patent is from the Latin root patens for “open.”

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Hence of all the vast store of church plate which our churches possessed before the Reformation, at the present time throughout all England only thirty-four chalices and seventy-three patens remain.

From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)




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