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kamet
  • n  a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
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katsina
  • n  a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa people
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iol
  • n  a clear plastic lens that is implanted in the eye; usually done when the natural lens has been removed in a cataract operation
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ion
  • n  a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
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ion beam
  • n  a beam of ions moving in the same direction at the same speed
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ion engine
  • n  a type of reaction-propulsion engine to propel rockets in space; a stream of positive ions is accelerated to a high velocity by an electric field
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ion exchange
  • n  a process in which ions are exchanged between a solution and an insoluble (usually resinous) solid; widely used in industrial processing
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ion pump
  • n  a vacuum pump that removes gas by ionizing the atoms or molecules and adsorbing them on a metal surface
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ionesco
  • n  French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994)
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ionia
  • n  region of western Asia Minor colonized by ancient Greeks
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ionian order
  • n  the second Greek order; the capital is decorated with spiral scrolls
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