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  • 1weak — W2S3 [wi:k] adj ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(physical)¦ 2¦(likely to break)¦ 3¦(character)¦ 4¦(without power)¦ 5¦(without interest)¦ 6¦(without energy)¦ 7¦(not good at doing something)¦ 8¦(money)¦ 9¦(argument/idea)¦ 10¦(drink)¦ …

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  • 2weak — weak, feeble, frail, fragile, infirm, decrepit can mean not strong enough to bear, resist, or endure strain or pressure or to withstand difficulty, effort, or use. Weak is by far the widest in its range of application, being not only… …

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  • 3Weak position (poetry) — Weak position is used in two different ways in the analysis of poetic meter: *In classical Greek and Latin scholarship, a short vowel is in weak position if the surrounding consonants would have permitted the syllable containing it to be… …

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  • 4could — [ weak kəd, strong kud ] modal verb *** Could is usually followed by an infinitive without to : I m glad you could come. Sometimes it is used without a following infinitive: I came as quickly as I could. Could does not change its form, so the… …

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  • 5could */*/*/ — weak [kəd] , strong [kʊd] modal verb summary: ■ Could is used as the past tense of can when it means that someone had the ability to do something, or that something was possible: The Roman army could march 30 miles in a day. ■ Could is usually… …

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  • 6Weak entity — In a relational database, a Weak Entity is an entity that cannot be uniquely identified by its attributes alone; therefore, it must use a foreign key in conjunction with its attributes to create a primary key. The foreign key is typically a… …

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  • 7Weak and strong atheism — Strong atheism is a term generally used to describe atheists who accept as true the proposition, gods do not exist . Weak atheism refers to any other type of non theism. Historically, the terms positive and negative atheism have been used for… …

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  • 8Weak interaction — Standard model of particle physics …

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  • 9Weak gravitational lensing — While the presence of any mass bends the path of light passing near it, this effect rarely produces the giant arcs and multiple images associated with strong gravitational lensing. Most lines of sight in the universe are thoroughly in the weak… …

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  • 10Weak form and strong form — In the phonology of stress timed languages, the weak form of a word is a form that may be used when the word has no stress, and which is phonemically distinct from the strong form, used when the word is stressed. The strong form serves as the… …

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