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"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
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"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
"French terms with audio links",
"fr:Four",
"fr:Mathematics"
],
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"quaternion"
],
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"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"quaternion",
"quaternion#English"
]
],
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"(mathematics) quaternion"
],
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"masculine"
],
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"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1e/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-quaternion.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-quaternion.wav.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
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