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a. Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. anecdote, fr. Gr. &unr_; not published; 'an priv. + &unr_; given out, &unr_; to give out, to publish; &unr_; out + &unr_; to give. See Dose, n. ] 1. pl. Unpublished narratives. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. “Anecdotical traditions.” Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who relates or collects anecdotes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an acronym for compact disk, a disk-shaped recording of binary data that is smaller than a phonograph record, and is recorded and played back by a compact disk player, an electronic device containing a laser. The term is also used generically to refer to the medium as a data storage medium.
Syn. -- compact disc, compact disk. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. a compact disk player. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

3. an acronym for certificate of deposit, a debt instrument issued by a bank for a fixed time period, usually paying interest.
Syn. -- certificate of deposit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the chemical suymbol for cadmium, a metallic element of atomic number 48.
Syn. -- cadmium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the abbreviation for the candela, the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites. [ abbr. ]
Syn. -- candle, candela, standard candle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ from Compact Disk-Recordable. ] a recordable compact disk; a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only.
Syn. -- compact disc recordable, CD-WO, compact disc write-once. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system); a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user.
Syn. -- compact disc read-only memory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ from Compact Disk-Write Once. ] A recordable compact disk; a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only.
Syn. -- CD-R, compact disc recordable, compact disc write-once. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ acronym from Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. ] (Computers) a 8-bit code for representing alphanumerical information in a digital information storage medium. It was used expecially on IBM mainframes, and differed substantially from the ASCII code. [ acronym ] [ PJC ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'ek out + &unr_; skin. ] (Anat.) See Ecteron. -- Ec`der*on"ic a. [1913 Webster]

‖n.; pl. Ecdyses [ NL., fr. Gr. 'e`kdysis a getting out, fr. 'ekdy`ein, to put off; 'ek out + dy`ein to enter. ] (Biol.) The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; six + &unr_; ten. ] (Chem.) A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) Quantum chromodynamics. [ abbrev. ] [ PJC ]

n. [ L. synecdoche, Gr. synekdochh`, fr. to receive jointly; sy`n with + &unr_; to receive; &unr_; out + &unr_; to receive. ] (Rhet.) A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. Bain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. [ 1913 Webster ]

Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]