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similitude

[si-mil-i-tood, -tyood] / sɪˈmɪl ɪˌtud, -ˌtjud /




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However, this Reynolds similitude is not applied to quantum superfluids, as they do not have viscosity -- at least, that's what researchers have believed.

From Science Daily Jan. 30, 2024

“Everyone says that we have a similitude with Guardiola’s teams and especially when he was the coach of Barça,” Bonmatí said.

From Seattle Times Nov. 2, 2023

I have a lot of similitude with the younger Celine.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 2022

The diversity of the world outside of the campus is limited and regimented by the similitude of the vocation.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2018

In fact we were a kind of Corsican brothers in similitude, for, if I remember rightly, they were twins like Jill and me.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

But plenty of writers can conjure exciting similitudes.

From The New Yorker Jan. 4, 2016

For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are accustomed to their shifting similitudes, their inability to express themselves, their pretensions, and their good nature.

From A Practical Novelist by John Davidson

Prefig′urātive, showing by previous figures, types, or similitudes.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Thus the same mass is variously worked up and transformed into very many similitudes.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert




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