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Palimpsest logo #10101) American fantasy novel 2) British novella 3) English-language journal 4) Holograph 5) Manuscript 6) Reworked parchment 7) Writing medium
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Palimpsest logo #21000 A palimpsest t is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been either scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused, for another document. In contemporary usage, the denotation of the term palimpsest also is used in architecture, archaeology, and geomorphology. == Etymology == The word `palimpsest` deriv.....
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Palimpsest logo #21000[geology] In geology, a palimpsest is a geographical feature composed of superimposed structures created at different times. Palimpsest is beginning to be used by glaciologists to describe contradicting glacial flow indicators, usually consisting of smaller indicators (i.e., striae) overprinted upon larger features (i.e., stoss and lee topo...
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Palimpsest logo #21000[novella] Palimpsest is a 2009 science fiction novella by Charles Stross, exploring the conjunction of time travel and deep time. Originally published in Stross`s 2009 collection Wireless, it won the 2010 Hugo Award for best novella. Subterranean Press has announced that they will be reprinting the novella separately in 2011. ==Inspiration=...
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palimpsest logo #22641manuscript or paper that is erased and then written over
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Palimpsest logo #21002• (n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
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palimpsest logo #21003(from the article `valley`) Because the Earth`s climate has changed profoundly during the Quaternary and Tertiary (roughly the past 65,000,000 years), many landscapes are ...
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palimpsest logo #21003manuscript in roll or codex form carrying a text erased, or partly erased, underneath an apparent additional text. The underlying text is said to be ... [3 related articles]
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palimpsest logo #21160Memphis Facula, on Ganymede An ancient, relatively bright, circular feature on the surface of a dark icy moon, such as Ganymede or Callisto. Palimpsests lack the relief associated with normal craters and are thought to be impact craters of which the topographic relief has been eliminated by visc...
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Palimpsest logo #20972Pal'imp·sest noun [ Latin palimpsestus , Greek ... scratched or scraped again, ... a palimpsest; ... again + ... to rub, rub away: confer French palimpseste .] A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.
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palimpsest logo #10006A circular feature on the surface of dark icy moons such as Ganymede and Callisto lacking the relief associated with craters; Pamlimpsests are thought to be impact craters where the topographic relief of the crater has been eliminated by slow adjustment of the icy surface.
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palimpsest logo #20400[n] - a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
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palimpsest logo #21009palimpsest 1. A manuscript page that has been erased and written over many times. 2. A manuscript written over a partly erased older manuscript in such a way that the old words can be read beneath the new ones. 3. A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased...
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palimpsest logo #20974 noun a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
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