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Eon: The longest umit of geological time.

Pleonasm: Unnecessary verbiage, redundancy as in 'it was a dark and lightless night.'

Paeon: Greek and latin metrical foot consisting of three short and one long syllables: the first paeon / ' ~ ~ ~ /, the second paeon / ~ ' ~ ~ /, the third paeon / ~ ~ ' ~ /, and the fourth paeon / . . . View Full Definition

Sturgeons Law: When asked why so much of science fiction consisted of 'crap' (junk literature), science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, reportedly responded that '90% of everything was crap.' His point w . . . View Full Definition

Pantheon: (1) A pantheon is a collective term for all the gods believed to exist in a particular religious belief or mythos. Thus, we can talk of the Hittite pantheon, the Greek pantheon, etc. (2) The . . . View Full Definition

Leonine Verse: Verse using internal rhyme in which the middle and end of each line rhyme. More specifically, in the leonine verse of medieval Latin, hexameters (or alternate hexameters and pentameters) wou . . . View Full Definition

Anacreontics: Poetry or song-verse modeled on the poetry of the Greek poet Anacreon--i.e., carpe diem poetry praising hedonistic pleasures of wine, women, and song, written in trochaic tetrameter. Here is . . . View Full Definition

Neon (Ne): Atomic number: 10, Atomic mass: 20.179 g.mol -1, Electronegativity: unknown, Density: 0.9*10 -3 g.cm-3 at 20°C, Melting point: -249 °C, Boiling point: -246 °C, Vanderwaals radius: 0.16 nm, I . . . View Full Definition

Anacreontic Verse: Imitations of the 6th-century b.c. greek poet anacreon, who wrote about love and wine. Thomas moore translated anacreon's odes in 1800. Abraham cowley adapted them in his anacreontics.

Mandarine Napoleon: A French brandy-based liqueur that is flavored with tangerine skins. Grand Marnier is widely preferred to Mandarine Napoleon.