versant
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A gadget lover, Alexander is known to roll up his sleeves to become versant with the latest security technologies.
From Reuters ● May 26, 2013
Most of the rivers of the northern versant are comparatively small, as the island narrows into a kind of promontory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
Remarks.—Previous authors who treated Syrrhophus placed this species in the western complex, because it occurs on the Pacific versant and has a reduced outer palmar tubercle.
From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by John D. Lynch
His literary education likewise had been so carefully attended to, that he was considered as more versant in these things than his situation required.
In the south-western versant the largest river is the Kapuas, which, rising near the centre of the island, falls into the sea between Mampawa and Sukadana after a long and winding course.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
