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   Kin
   The kin was a Japanese unit of weight equal to 1.3228 lbs.
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   kin
   [n] - a person having kinship with another or others 2. [n] - group of people related by blood or marriage
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   kin
   The matter of being kin.(Ballentine`s,3rd ed.,1969,p.702) Category: Law
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   Kin
   Kin (kĭn) noun (Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. Riemann.
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   Kin
   Kin noun [ Middle English kin , cun , Anglo-Saxon cynn kin, kind, race, people; akin to cennan to beget, Dutch kunne sex, Old Saxon & Old High German kunni kin, race, Icelandic kyn , Goth. kuni , G. & Dutch kind a child, Latin genus kind, race, Latin gignere to beget, Greek gi`gnesqai to be born, Sanskrit < ...
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   Kin
   Kin adjective Of the same nature or kind; kinder. ' Kin to the king.' Shak.
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   Kin
   Kin (kĭn) noun Also Kine (kīn) . [ Greek kinei^n to move.] (Physics) The unit velocity in the C.G.S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second.
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   kin
   kin group noun group of people related by blood or marriage
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   Kin
   `Kin` can mean: * Kinship * Family * Kin, a boys name * Kin (service club) * Kin, Okinawa, a town in Okinawa, Japan * Kin (film), a 2000 UK/South Africa film directed by Elaine Proctor and starring Miranda Otto * Tsuchi Kin, a character featued in Naruto, a famous Japanese anime. * A fictional group of channeling women from Ebou Dar in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time * K'in In the Maya Calendar, is one day. * Knowledge iN, an online information...
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    kin
    • A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin. • (n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent. • (n.) Relatives; persons of the same family or race. • (a.) Of the same nature or kind; kinder. • (n.) A primitive Chines...
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    kin
    persons deemed related through blood or marriage or both. See kinship.
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    Kin
    K In is a Scottish girl name. The meaning of the name is `from the top of the cliff` Where is it used? The name K In is mainly used In Japanese. The name K In doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name K In seems to be unique!
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    kin
    the Japanese version of the catty, a common weight unit of the Far East. The Japanese identified this unit with a traditional unit equal to about 1.323 pounds or almost exactly 600 grams; this is about 0.75% smaller than the Chinese catty.
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    kin altruism
    (from the article `ethics`) In short, kin altruism and reciprocity do exist, at least in some nonhuman animals living in groups. Could these forms of behaviour be the basis of ... The apparent altruistic behaviour of many animals is, like some manifestations of sexual selection, a trait that at first seems incompatible with the ... [...
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    Kin Beach Provincial Park
    `Kin Beach Provincial Park` is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Category:Provincial Parks of British Columbia
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    Kin Canada
    `Kin Canada` (formerly the `Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs of Canada`) is a Canadian non-profit service organization that promotes service, fellowship, positive values, and national pride. `Kin Canada` is an organization whose members comprise Kinsmen, Kinette and Kin Clubs (service clubs) located in Canada. The individual club members are known as `Kin`.
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    Kin Endate
    `Kin Endate` is a Japanese astronomer. He was born at Iwaizumi, Iwate. Now he lives in Bihoro, Hokkaido. His profession is a woodwork workman. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He is also the co-discoverer of asteroid #7530, with Kazuo Watanabe. The asteroid 4282 Endate is named after him.
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    Kin Games
    Kin Games is a yearly Canadian tradition. It is run by University students in Kinesiology or one of the related Health Sciences fields from the hosting University. In 2007 it is being held at the University of Saskatchewan. It is the largest student run physical education conference in Canada. Previous Kin Games host locations include; 2006 - York University, 2005 - University of Alberta, 2004 - University of Windsor, 2003 - Université de Montréa...
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    Kin Hubbard
    `Frank McKinney Hubbard` (born 1 September 1868 in Bellefontaine, Ohio - died: 26 December 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist better known by his pen name ` `Kin` Hubbard`. He was creator of the cartoon `Abe Martin of Brown County` which ran in U.S. newspapers from 1904 until his death in 1930, and was the originator of many political quips that remain in use. North American humorist Will Rogers ...
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    Kin Kletso
    `Kin Kletso` is a Chacoan Anasazi great house and notable archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, a canyon in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It was a medium-sized complex located 0.5 miles (0.8 m) west of Pueblo Bonito; it shows strong evidence of construction and occupation by Pueblo peoples from the northern San Juan Basin. Its rectangular shape and design is related to the Pueblo II cultural group, rather than the Pueblo III styl...
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    Kin Nahasbas
    `Kin Nahasbas` is a Chacoan Anasazi great house and archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, northwestern New Mexico, United States. Built in either the 9th or 10th centuries AD, it was major ruin located slightly north of the Una Vida complex, which is positioned at the foot of the north mesa. Limited excavation has been conducted in this area.. The ruins are now protected within the borders of Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
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    Kin Platt
    `Kin Platt` (August 12,1911-November 30, 2003, New York City, New York) is an American writer-artist best known for penning radio comedy and animated TV series, as well as children's mystery novels, for one of which he received the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. He additionally wrote comic books (creating an early funny-animal superhero, Supermouse) and comic strips.
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    Kin recognition
    `Kin recognition` refers to animals' capabilities to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin. In evolutionary biology and in psychology, such capabilities are presumed to have evolved to serve the adaptive functions of `kin altruism` (see kin selection) and inbreeding avoidance. Apart from a few exceptional cases (e.g., the green-beard effect), kin recognition is achieved via several cue-based mechanisms (e.g., imprinting, phenotype mat...
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    Kin selection
    From the time of antiquity field biologists have observed that some organisms tend to exhibit strategies that favor the reproductive success of their relatives, even at a cost to their own survival and/or reproduction. The classic example is a eusocial insect colony, with sterile females acting as workers to assist their mother in the production of additional offspring. Many evolutionary biologists explain this by the theory of `kin selection`. ...
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    Kin selection
    A theory that people will exhibit preferences for helping blood relatives because this will increase the odds that their genes will be transmitted to subsequent generations.
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