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"text": "Consequently, the electromagnetic fields have plane-wave characteristics in local regions, except immediately adjacent to a caustic where there is a rapid transition from the wavelike behavior of the local plane-wave fields to the evanescent behavior beyond the ray path.",
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"ref": "2015, Yitzhak Mendelson, “Optical Sensors”, in Joseph D. Bronzino, Donald R. Peterson, editors, Medical Devices and Human Engineering (Biomedical Engineering Handbook; 2), 4th edition, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, section I (Biomedical Sensors), page 6-1",
"text": "The analyte directly affects the optical properties of a waveguide, such as evanescent waves (electromagnetic waves generated in the medium outside the optical waveguide when light is reflected from within) or surface plasmons (resonances induced by an evanescent wave in a thin film deposited on a waveguide surface).",
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"ref": "1734, [George Berkeley], The Analyst; or, A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. […], London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section XXXV, page 59",
"text": "And what are theſe Fluxions? The Velocities of evaneſcent Increments? And what are theſe ſame evaneſcent Increments? They are neither finite Quantities, nor Quantities infinitely ſmall, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the Ghoſts of departed Quantities?",
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"ref": "1735, [George Berkeley], A Defence of Free-thinking in Mathematics. […], London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, →OCLC, paragraph XLIV, page 55",
"text": "Some hold the evaneſcent increments to be real quantities, ſome to be nothings, ſome to be limits. As many Men, ſo many minds: Each differing one from another, and all from Sir Iſaac Newton.",
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"ref": "1972, Morris Kline, “Calculus in the Eighteenth Century”, in Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press; paperback edition, volume 2, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1990, section 3 (The Technique of Integration and Complex Quantities), page 406",
"text": "[Leonhard] Euler emphasized that the derivative is the ratio of the evanescent differentials and said that the integral calculus was concerned with finding the function itself.",
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"text": "He cannot ſuppreſs his diſapprobation […] of thoſe evaneſcent echoes of ſchool philoſophy, faint-warbling through the grove of letters, to the injury of natural and ſcientific knowledge, and the annoyance of English literature.",
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"ref": "1709 August 22, Archibald Adams, “IV. A Letter from Dr. Archibald Adams to Dr. Hans Sloane, R[oyal] S[ociety] Secr[etary], Concerning the Manner of Making Microscopes, &c. Norwich, August 11, 1709 [Julian calendar]”, in Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XXVII, number 325, London: Printed for H. Clements […], and W. Innys […], and D. Brown […], published January–March 1710 (1712 printing), →OCLC, page 26",
"text": "If the Fluids moving in an Evaneſcent Artery [i.e., a capillary] appear Globular, I ſuppose its becauſe the Canal is round, which alters the Caſe much.",
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"ref": "1767, James Hervey, “Letter IX. Theron to Aspasio.”, in Theron and Aspasio: Or, A Series of Dialogues and Letters, upon the Most Important and Interesting Subjects. In Three Volumes, 5th edition, volume III, London: Printed by Charles Rivington, for John and Francis Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 163",
"text": "Here are Sholes and Sholes, of various Characters, and of the moſt diverſified Sizes; from the gigantic Whale, whoſe flouncings \"tempeſt the Ocean,\" to the evaneſcent Anchovy, whoſe Subſtance diſſolves in the ſmalleſt Fircaſſee.",
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"ref": "1911, Johann David Schoepf [i.e., Johann David Schoepff], “Return from Pittsburgh”, in Alfred J. Morrison, transl., Travels in the Confederation [1783–1784]: From the German, volume I (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia), Philadelphia, Pa.: William J. Campbell, →OCLC, page 290",
"text": "If in the middle of summer the water of Turkey Creek […] is whipped and beaten with a stick, and then if a fire-brand is passed over, a mist is enkindled and a faint evanescent flame runs over the entire width of the brook.",
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"ref": "2013, Gérard Gousbet, “Understanding Quantum Mechanics”, in Hidden Worlds in Quantum Physics, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, page 394",
"text": "If we could remove everything from a piece of space, […] then there would still be quantum fluctuations of fields and virtual particles, bouncing to and fro against the wall of nothing. Ironically enough, this piece of space, filled with so many evanescent entities, is nowadays called vacuum. However, this vacuum is not nothing. It is a quantum vacuum to which the argument of the Ancient Greeks does not apply.",
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"ref": "1798 February, “Constantia” [pseudonym; Judith Sargent Murray], “No. XLVII”, in The Gleaner. A Miscellaneous Production. In Three Volumes, volume II, printed at Boston, Mass.: By I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, […], →OCLC, page 138",
"text": "But alas! how momentary was the bliss!—the evaneſcent viſion ſoon fled, and the youthful queen [Mary, Queen of Scots] was arrayed in the melancholy garb of widowhood!",
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"text": "Upward it [the \"apennine adonis\", probably the Pyrenean pheasant's eye (Adonis pyrenaica)] is of a pale green, with ſome Tinge of yellowiſh; and it is all the Way duſted with little grey tranſparent Globules. Theſe are the Extremities of ſo many round evaneſcent ſecretory Ducts; as the Hairs of other Plants are the more permanent Extremities of theirs.",
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"ref": "1787, [Carl Linnaeus; Carl Linnaeus the younger], “1135. Taxus. * Tournes. 362. Yew.”, in The Families of Plants, with Their Natural Characters, According to the Number, Figure, Situation, and Proportion of All the Parts of Frutification. Translated from the Last Edition, […] of the Genera Plantarum, and of the Mantissæ Plantarum of the Elder Linneus, and from the Supplementum Plantarum of the Younger Linneus, […], volume I, Lichfield, Staffordshire: Printed by John Jackson; sold by J[oseph] Johnson, […]; T. Byrne, […]; and J. Balfour, […], →OCLC, class XXII (Two Houses (Dioecia)), section XIII (One Brotherhood (Monadelphia)), page 706",
"text": "Per[ianth]. Berry from the receptacle elongated into a cup globular, ſucculent, gaging at the top, colour'd, at length waſting from dryneſs, evaneſcent.",
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"ref": "1960, Richard Evans Schultes, “Orchidaceae A. L. de Jussieu”, in Native Orchids of Trinidad and Tobago (International Series of Monographs on Pure and Applied Biology: Botany Division; 3), Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Pergamon Press, →OCLC, page 19",
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"text": "And what are theſe Fluxions? The Velocities of evaneſcent Increments? And what are theſe ſame evaneſcent Increments? They are neither finite Quantities, nor Quantities infinitely ſmall, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the Ghoſts of departed Quantities?",
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"text": "Here are Sholes and Sholes, of various Characters, and of the moſt diverſified Sizes; from the gigantic Whale, whoſe flouncings \"tempeſt the Ocean,\" to the evaneſcent Anchovy, whoſe Subſtance diſſolves in the ſmalleſt Fircaſſee.",
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing",
"word": "indistinto"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing",
"word": "memeha"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing",
"word": "evanescent"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing",
"word": "fugidís"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neulovim",
"sense": "barely there; almost imperceptible",
"word": "неуловим"
}
],
"word": "evanescent"
}
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}
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]
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"4": "",
"5": "",
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"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
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},
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}
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"feminine",
"singular"
]
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{
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"masculine",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "evanescente",
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"neuter",
"plural"
]
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"form": "no-table-tags",
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"feminine",
"indefinite",
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
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"definite",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"nominative",
"singular"
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},
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"definite",
"feminine",
"nominative",
"singular"
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},
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"definite",
"masculine",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
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"definite",
"feminine",
"neuter",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
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"masculine",
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},
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
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]
},
{
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]
},
{
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"feminine",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
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"definite",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular"
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"genitive",
"singular"
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},
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"definite",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
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"plural"
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"Romanian lemmas",
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"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''Disappearing, vanishing.'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"evanescent"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "evanescent",
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}
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