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trilogy |
a group of three related novels, plays, films, operas, or albums |
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trisect |
divide (something) into three parts, typically three equal parts |
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triumvirate |
a group of three, especially in authority |
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quadrant |
1. each of four quarters of a circle 2. each of four parts of a plane, sphere, space, or body divided by two lines or planes at right angles 3. an instrument used for taking angular measurements of altitude in astronomy and navigation |
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quartet |
1. a group of four people playing music or singing together 2. a set of four |
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quatrain |
a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes |
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decimate |
1. kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of
2. kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group |
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declathon |
an athletic event taking place over two days, in which each competitor takes part in the same prescribed ten events |
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bicentennial |
the two-hundredth anniversary of a significant event |
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centenary |
the hundredth anniversary of a significant event |
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centigrade |
of or denoting a scale of temperature in which water freezes at 0° and boils at 100° under standard conditions (Celsius) |
