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VICENNIAL
• vicennial •
Pronunciation: vai-sen-i-êl • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. Occurring every twenty years. 2. Lasting twenty years.
Notes: We love to divide time into convenient chunks: ten years (decade), a hundred years (century), a thousand years (millennium), and we always turn to Latin for the names of these periods. Today's word covers a score of years or a vicennium, the plural of which is vicennia. Our adjective has a fraternal brother, vicenary, with the same meaning.
In Play: We start out thinking about the hours that have passed, then the days, then the months and years, and even the decades. However, we eventually reach the age when we think in larger periods than decades: "I didn't really begin to think about my age until my children began celebrating their vicennial birthdays." This word also indicates a period of twenty years: "When Rip van Winkle woke up from his vicennial slumber he was surprised at what he found."
Word History: Today's word was created from Latin vicennium "a twenty-year period", a word goes back to viginti "twenty", which currently is vingt in French. The Latin word apparently started out in Proto-Indo-European as a compound of wi- "half, in two" + dekmt-i "decade", containing the root dek- "ten", which we find in our words decade, decimal, and others. The original PIE word for "twenty" came to be vimsatih in Sanskrit. The phrase pañca + vimsatih "twenty-five" developed over the next 3000 years into modern Hindi pacis "twenty-five". Adding the simple noun suffix -i to this word gave Hindi and English the name of the game pachisi. (We hope we have far less than a vicennial wait for the next Good Word from today's contributor, David Ross.)
Pronunciation: vai-sen-i-êl • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. Occurring every twenty years. 2. Lasting twenty years.
Notes: We love to divide time into convenient chunks: ten years (decade), a hundred years (century), a thousand years (millennium), and we always turn to Latin for the names of these periods. Today's word covers a score of years or a vicennium, the plural of which is vicennia. Our adjective has a fraternal brother, vicenary, with the same meaning.
In Play: We start out thinking about the hours that have passed, then the days, then the months and years, and even the decades. However, we eventually reach the age when we think in larger periods than decades: "I didn't really begin to think about my age until my children began celebrating their vicennial birthdays." This word also indicates a period of twenty years: "When Rip van Winkle woke up from his vicennial slumber he was surprised at what he found."
Word History: Today's word was created from Latin vicennium "a twenty-year period", a word goes back to viginti "twenty", which currently is vingt in French. The Latin word apparently started out in Proto-Indo-European as a compound of wi- "half, in two" + dekmt-i "decade", containing the root dek- "ten", which we find in our words decade, decimal, and others. The original PIE word for "twenty" came to be vimsatih in Sanskrit. The phrase pañca + vimsatih "twenty-five" developed over the next 3000 years into modern Hindi pacis "twenty-five". Adding the simple noun suffix -i to this word gave Hindi and English the name of the game pachisi. (We hope we have far less than a vicennial wait for the next Good Word from today's contributor, David Ross.)
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Is there another kind of brother?• vicennial •
Our adjective has a fraternal brother, vicenary, with the same meaning.
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Identical, as in Fraternal vs. Identical Twins?Is there another kind of brother?• vicennial •
Our adjective has a fraternal brother, vicenary, with the same meaning.
Or Biological vs. Fraternal (member of a club or fraternity)?
But yeah, it does sound a bit redundant ...
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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Well, the brother might have been a greaser or a hippy. Oops, did I just show my age?Is there another kind of brother?• vicennial •
Our adjective has a fraternal brother, vicenary, with the same meaning.
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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Presumably, the hippy would be somehow more than fraternal, while the greaser would be less than fraternal.Well, the brother might have been a greaser or a hippy.
Only to indicate you have passed your vicennial year.Oops, did I just show my age?
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Probably his 3rd vicennial at least!...Only to indicate you have passed your vicennial year.Oops, did I just show my age?
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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Careful. We may force you to start putting the two e's back into your handle.Probably his 3rd vicennial at least! :P...Only to indicate you have passed your vicennial year.Oops, did I just show my age?
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In fact, back in the day, greasers and frats were considered opposites. Then hippies came along and spoiled the symmetry.Presumably, the hippy would be somehow more than fraternal, while the greaser would be less than fraternal.Well, the brother might have been a greaser or a hippy.
Only to indicate you have passed your vicennial year.Oops, did I just show my age?
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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I guess that was about the time they started looking for another three fundamental "social particles," in keeping with super-symmetry theory.In fact, back in the day, greasers and frats were considered opposites. Then hippies came along and spoiled the symmetry.Presumably, the hippy would be somehow more than fraternal, while the greaser would be less than fraternal.Well, the brother might have been a greaser or a hippy.
So perhaps there are indeed at least six types of brothers, only one of which would be referred to as fraternal (top, bottom, strange, charmed, etc)?
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Re: VICENNIAL
Any engineer whose avatar is a symbol for a discrete component shouldn't fling solder, OM! Do you think mine should be a triode? Or maybe a cat's whisker and a piece of galena?Careful. We may force you to start putting the two e's back into your handle.Probably his 3rd vicennial at least!... Only to indicate you have passed your vicennial year.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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BJTs have been integrated on a large scale for more than a vicennium, thank you very much!Any engineer whose avatar is a symbol for a discrete component shouldn't fling solder, OM!Careful. We may force you to start putting the two e's back into your handle.
If you are reaching back, why not an EF-50 pentode?Do you think mine should be a triode? Or maybe a cat's whisker and a piece of galena?
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Anode the current thread would transform to this, all the sines were there. Oh they tried to resist but just didn't have the capacitance.
Serially, you guys could be on the circuit faraday. Watt would you charge?
As they say in the Pirate Radio Resistance Network, Ohm shanty ohm (R!)
Serially, you guys could be on the circuit faraday. Watt would you charge?
As they say in the Pirate Radio Resistance Network, Ohm shanty ohm (R!)
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Yeah, but you rarely see an NPN or PNP discrete; mostly you see NANDs and NORs and DACs and ADCs and Op Amps and all that highly integrated stuff, or else just a rectangle with a pinout.... BJTs have been integrated on a large scale for more than a vicennium, thank you very much!
Uh, because Lee De Forest's Audion (father of the triode) preceded the pentode? The only thing earlier than a lead crystal was probably Marconi's coherer, which pre-dates me by even more than the triode.If you are reaching back, why not an EF-50 pentode?Do you think mine should be a triode? Or maybe a cat's whisker and a piece of galena?
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(Hoo, boy! looking up De Forest led me off to a series of articles that dragged me down memory lane, back to the days of vacuum tubes and the All American Five, one of which I owned in my youth.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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