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Colon : (noun)
1: the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the
rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before
they are excreted
2: the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100
centavos [syn: El Salvadoran colon]
3: the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
[syn: Costa Rican colon]
4: a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
[syn: Colon, Aspinwall]
5: a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a
series or an example or an explanation (or after the
salutation of a business letter)
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Condor \Con"dor\ (k[o^]n"d[o^]r; in defs. 2 & 3, k[-o]n"d[-o]r),
n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) The California vulture. [Local, U. S.]
2. A gold coin of Chile, bearing the figure of a condor, and
equal to twenty pesos. It contains 10.98356 grams of gold,
and is equivalent to about $7.29. Called also colon.
3. A gold coin of Colombia equivalent to about $9.65. It is
no longer coined.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Colon : \Co"lon\, n. [L. colon, colum, limb, member, the largest
of the intestines, fr. Gr. ?, and in sense of the intestine,
?: cf. F. colon. Cf. Colic.]
1. (Anat.) That part of the large intestines which extends
from the c[ae]cum to the rectum.
Note: [See Illust of Digestion.]
2. (Gram.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to
separate parts of a sentence that are complete in
themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place
of a conjunction.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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COLONY. A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to
people another, and remain subject to the mother country. 3 W. C. C. R. 287.
The country occupied by the colonists is also called a colony. A colony
differs from a possession, or a dependency. (q.v.) For a history of the
American colonies, the reader is referred to Story on the Constitution, book
I.; 1 Kent, Com. 77 to 80; 1 Dane's Ab. Index, b. t.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Colon :
":". ASCII character 58. Common names:
ITU-T: colon. Rare: dots; INTERCAL: two-spot.
(1995-09-25)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Colon, MI (village, FIPS 17360)
Location: 41.95902 N, 85.32347 W
Population (1990): 1224 (588 housing units)
Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 49040
Colon, NC
Zip code(s): 27330
Colon, NE (village, FIPS 10005)
Location: 41.29776 N, 96.60645 W
Population (1990): 128 (54 housing units)
Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 68018
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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Colon : Colon: The part of the large intestine that runs from the anus . .
The colon measures about 5 ft (1.5 m) in length. It goes up (the ascending colon) on the right side of the sigmoid colon) to merge with the rectum.
The colon is sometimes inaccurately called the large intestine or large bowel. It is only a part of the large intestine/bowel. The confusion may have arisen because the word "colon" came from
"kolon" which to the ancient Greeks meant the large intestine.
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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