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acribic
adj 2
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3ADJ.
most, pantographic
VERB + ACRIBIC
follows
ACRIBIC + NOUN
description
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adj
1
meticulous, painstaking, thorough
The plan of each card is as follows: … 5. An acribic description of the discovered objects with measurements in mm. and cm., and references to the illustrations.
The most acribic pantographic or computer-aided bite registration procedures of tooth-guided border movements do not necessarily result in a satisfactory occlusion.
2
(chemistry) (of a chemical name) systematic
Furthermore, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommended that chemists should stop using imprecise terms such as systematic and trivial. It was suggested that they be replaced by the more precise terms acribic and anacribic, but these terms have never taken hold.
Doubtless finding it troublesome to name their product from scratch, they hijacked the RTM and came up with 'Texanol benzyl phthalate'. ... More legitimate and altogether more 'acribic' would have been benzyl 3-isobutyryloxy-1-isopropyl-2 2-dimethylpropyl phthalate.
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The plan of each card is as follows: … 5. An acribic description of the discovered objects with measurements in mm. and cm., and references to the illustrations.
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The most acribic pantographic or computer-aided bite registration procedures of tooth-guided border movements do not necessarily result in a satisfactory occlusion.
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Furthermore, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommended that chemists should stop using imprecise terms such as systematic and trivial. It was suggested that they be rep
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