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Is there a hypernym for person or system?
Say for example I would like to say that my system supports granting access credentials to both people and systems; can I express that in a single term?
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Is there a term for the "due-ness" of something?
I have something that can be one of the three states: current, due, and overdue.
Is there a specific term that describes the set comprised of those states, one that evokes the nature of the states? ...
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What is the word that includes "Chiefs" and "Sergeants-Major" together?
Is there a word or two that can combine Chief Master Sergeant/Petty Officer and Sergeants-Major? I want it in a sentence that involves both sets of ranks like: "'The Chiefs and Sergeants-Major' will ...
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Hypernym for “conjunction” and “opposition”
Conjunction and opposition are terms from astronomy and astrology, and refer to two celestial bodies (usually planets) being together, or opposite one another, as seen from a third body (almost-always ...
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A word or phrase to encompass both a long, flexible neck, and a long, flexible tail (but not normal arms and legs)
Consider a creature like a long-necked dinosaur:
The neck and tail share many functional (and presumably anatomical) similarities. Specifically, as far as I'm concerned, they are both flexible ...
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Word that covers the following: A single episode of a series, a single movie (in a series of movies or not), an audio track (on an album or not)
As described in the title, I'm searching for a word that covers all this different meanings. All of these meanings are in the field media but that didn't help me finding a word.
One first guess of a ...
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Hypernym for acronym, abbreviation, and symbol
What would the hypernym of acronym, abbreviation, and symbol be? I know that abbreviation is a hypernym for Initialism and Acronym, but is there a word that includes abbreviation and symbols, I'm ...
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