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Ism - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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-ism \-ism\ [F. -isme, or L. -ismus, Gr. ?.]
A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act
or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory,
doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism,
hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Ism : \Ism\, n. [See ism, above.]
A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.
--E. Everett.
The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of
isms which no man can number. --S. G.
Goodrich.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Ism : Industrial, Science, Medical [ = 2,4 GHz ] (WLAN)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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