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French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665)
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<noun.person>
Fermat |
Pierre de Fermat |
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Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)
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<noun.person>
Enrico Fermi |
Fermi |
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(physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies)
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<noun.cognition>
Fermi-Dirac statistics |
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Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)
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<noun.person>
Ferdinand Magellan |
Fernao Magalhaes |
Magellan |
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genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States: barrel cacti
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<noun.plant>
Ferocactus |
genus Ferocactus |
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"in the 13th century Ferrara was a center of Renaissance learning and the arts"
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a vertical rotating mechanism consisting of a large wheel with suspended seats that remain upright as the wheel rotates; provides a ride at an amusement park
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<noun.artifact>
Ferris wheel |
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a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
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Fertile Crescent |
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(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC
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<noun.time>
Channukah |
Channukkah |
Chanukah |
Chanukkah |
Feast of Dedication |
Feast of Lights |
Feast of the Dedication |
Festival of Lights |
Hannukah |
Hanukah |
Hanukkah |
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grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
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<noun.plant>
Festuca elatior |
fescue |
fescue grass |
meadow fescue |
cultivated for sheep pasturage in upland regions or used as a lawn grass
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<noun.plant>
Festuca ovina |
sheep fescue |
sheep's fescue |
United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)
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<noun.person>
Feynman |
Richard Feynman |
Richard Phillips Feynman |
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a sequence of numbers in which each number equals the sum of the two preceding numbers
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<noun.group>
Fibonacci sequence |
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large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees
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<noun.plant>
Ficus |
genus Ficus |
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a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
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<noun.plant>
Ficus aurea |
Florida strangler fig |
golden fig |
strangler fig |
wild fig |
East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
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<noun.plant>
East Indian fig tree |
Ficus bengalensis |
Indian banyan |
banian |
banian tree |
banyan |
banyan tree |
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Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
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<noun.plant>
Ficus carica |
common fig |
common fig tree |
fig |
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wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs
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<noun.plant>
Ficus carica sylvestris |
caprifig |
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shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
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<noun.plant>
Ficus deltoidea |
Ficus diversifolia |
mistletoe fig |
mistletoe rubber plant |
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shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
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<noun.plant>
Ficus deltoidea |
Ficus diversifolia |
mistletoe fig |
mistletoe rubber plant |
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large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber
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<noun.plant>
Assam rubber |
Ficus elastica |
India-rubber fig |
India-rubber plant |
India-rubber tree |
rubber plant |
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fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
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<noun.plant>
Ficus religiosa |
bo tree |
peepul |
pipal |
pipal tree |
pipul |
sacred fig |
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Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood
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<noun.plant>
Botany Bay fig |
Ficus rubiginosa |
Port Jackson fig |
little-leaf fig |
rusty rig |
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thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
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<noun.plant>
Ficus sycomorus |
mulberry fig |
sycamore |
sycamore fig |