1) Apotheosis 2) Classic example 3) Epitome 4) Epome 5) Essence 6) Intrinsicality 7) Model 8) Paragon 9) Personification 10) Pith 11) Soul 12) Spirit
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1) Element 2) Ether 3) French word used in English 4) Tourist attraction in Tokyo
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[book] Quintessence: The Quality of Having It (ISBN 0-517-55089-X) is a book by Betty Cornfeld and Owen Edwards, originally published in 1983 and reissued in 2001. In 1983 it was recommended by The New York Times as a potential Christmas present. ...
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[physics] == Tracker behavior == Many models of quintessence have a tracker behavior, which according to Paul Steinhardt et al. (1999) partly solves the cosmological constant problem. In these models, the quintessence field has a density which closely tracks (but is less than) the radiation density until matter-radiation equality, which tri...
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the most essential part or embodiment of something
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• (n.) Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence. • (v. t.) To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence. • (n.) The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, und...
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Classically, the fifth element, after earth, air, fire, and water – the ephemeral substance that prevented the planets from falling to the center of the celestial sphere. Recently, the term has been used to refer to scalar field models for dark energy. These models may be distinguishable from ...
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1. The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment. ... The ancient Greeks recognised four elements, fire, air, water, and earth. The Pythagoreans added a fifth and called it nether, the fifth essence, which they said flew upward at creation and out of it the stars were made. The alchemists sometime...
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Quin·tes'sence noun [ French, from Latin
quinta essentia fifth essence. See
Quint , and
Essence .]
1. The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See
Ferment oils , under
Ferment . [ Obsolete] » The ancient Greeks recognized four...
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n] - (archaic) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water 2. [n] - the purest and most concentrated essence of something 3. [n] - the most typical example or representative of a type
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quintessence The fifth essence. The ancient Greeks said there were four elements, or forms, in which matter could exist: fire, air, water, and earth. The Pythagoreans added a fifth element known as the fifth essence (quintessence) ether [EE thuhr]; more subtle and pure than fire, and consisting of a spherical or circular motion that flew upwards ...
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noun the purest and most concentrated essence of something
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(Lat. quinta essentia, the fifth essence) the purest, most highly concentrated form of a nature or essence; originally, in Aristotelianism, the fifth element, found in celestial bodies, distinguished from the four earthly elements. -- V.J.B.
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the pure and concentrated essence of a substance. · the most perfect embodiment of something. · (in ancient and medieval philosophy) the fifth essence or element, ether, supposed to be the constituent matter of the heavenly bodies, the others being air, fire, earth, and water.
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[SAT terms] the most typical example or representative of a type
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