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Amphiscious was used to define the Polish word dwucienny, which breaks down into dwu (double) cienny (shadowed). How strange that people were even using such words back then! I wonder what the interest was in things at the equator that cast shadows northwards part of the year, and southwards another part of the year? Maybe it was applied to special sundials, or something. |
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01-07-2013, 04:15 AM | #152 |
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The Oxford English Dictionary has a free email service which will send you the entry for a different word every day. The subscription link is on the right. http://www.oed.com/
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I looked up recursion, and it said 'see recursion'
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I agree that it was probably a joke, but The Jargon File does define recursion that way: http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/recursion.html
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