"nor" meaning in English

See nor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Conjunction

IPA: /nɔː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /nɔɹ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-nor.ogg [US]
enPR: nô, nôr Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|nauther}} Middle English nauther, {{m|enm|nother}} nother, {{m|enm|neither}} neither Head templates: {{en-con}} nor
  1. (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one). Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-nor-en-conj-NeTNSalv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 35 0 3 15 36 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 15 18 1 3 30 33
  2. A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.
    Sense id: en-nor-en-conj-kGxDAkMW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 35 0 3 15 36 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 15 18 1 3 30 33
  3. (archaic) Neither. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-nor-en-conj-s5BlQ9ft
  4. Used to introduce a further negative statement.
    Sense id: en-nor-en-conj-d7gd2XVV
  5. (UK, dialect) Than. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-nor-en-conj-Emgrww~4 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 35 0 3 15 36 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 15 18 1 3 30 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: neither Translations (nor): as (Albanian), وَلَا (walā) (Arabic), нито (nito) (Bulgarian), ani (Czech), noch (Dutch), nek (Esperanto), -kä (Finnish), ni (French), nin (Galician), არც (arc) (Georgian), noch (German), sem (Hungarian), se (Hungarian), (Icelandic), (Italian), nec (Latin), arī ne (Latvian), nach (Luxembourgish), ne (Middle English), eller (Norwegian), heller ikke (Norwegian), نه (na) (Persian), و نه (va na) [formal] (Persian), ani (Polish), nem (Portuguese), nici (Romanian), ни (ni) (Russian), no (Scottish Gaelic), neo (Scottish Gaelic), air neo (Scottish Gaelic), cha mhò (Scottish Gaelic), niti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), ni [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), ani (Slovak), niti (Slovene), ne (Slovene), ni (Spanish), eller (Swedish), ne (Turkish)

Noun

IPA: /nɔː/ [Received-Pronunciation], /nɔɹ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-nor.ogg [US] Forms: nors [plural]
enPR: nô, nôr Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ) Etymology: From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or. Etymology templates: {{m|en|not}} not, {{m|en|or}} or, {{m|en|negation}} negation, {{m|en|or}} or Head templates: {{en-noun}} nor (plural nors)
  1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: NOR Categories (topical): Electronics, Logic Coordinate_terms: and, nand, or, xor
    Sense id: en-nor-en-noun-dNUiQeN9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 35 0 3 15 36 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 15 18 1 3 30 33 Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, human-sciences, logic, mathematics, natural-sciences, philosophy, physical-sciences, physics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "buff nor stye"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "for love nor money"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "gentle nor simple"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "hide nor hair"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "make head nor tail of"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "make neither head nor tail of"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "neither a borrower nor a lender be"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "neither fish, flesh, nor fowl"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "neither fish nor flesh"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "neither here nor there"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "neither use nor ornament"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tide nor time tarrieth no man"
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          "text": "They are happy, nor need we worry.",
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          "ref": "1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner",
          "text": "Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.",
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          "ref": "1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman",
          "text": "And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]",
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          "text": "I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.",
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          "ref": "2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68",
          "text": "The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.",
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        "(archaic) Neither."
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          "text": "He's no better nor you.",
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          "text": "'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'",
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          "ref": "1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 92",
          "text": "I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.",
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        "(UK, dialect) Than."
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
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      "word": "as"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
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      "word": "وَلَا"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "нито"
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      "lang": "Galician",
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      "word": "nin"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
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      "word": "არც"
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      "lang": "German",
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      "word": "noch"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "sem"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "se"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "né"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "né"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
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      "word": "eller"
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      "word": "heller ikke"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "نه"
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      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "va na",
      "sense": "nor",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "ani"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "nem"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
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      "word": "neo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
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    {
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      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "nor",
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "ni"
    },
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      "lang": "Swedish",
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "ne"
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}

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      "word": "for love nor money"
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      "word": "gentle nor simple"
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    {
      "word": "hide nor hair"
    },
    {
      "word": "make head nor tail of"
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    {
      "word": "make neither head nor tail of"
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    {
      "word": "neither a borrower nor a lender be"
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    {
      "word": "neither fish, flesh, nor fowl"
    },
    {
      "word": "neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring"
    },
    {
      "word": "neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring"
    },
    {
      "word": "neither fish nor flesh"
    },
    {
      "word": "neither fish nor fowl"
    },
    {
      "word": "neither here nor there"
    },
    {
      "word": "neither use nor ornament"
    },
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          "text": "They are happy, nor need we worry.",
          "type": "example"
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          "ref": "1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner",
          "text": "Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.",
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          "ref": "1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman",
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          "ref": "2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68",
          "text": "The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Neither."
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        "(archaic) Neither."
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          "text": "The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.",
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "He's no better nor you.",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "ref": "1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131",
          "text": "'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 92",
          "text": "I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.",
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        }
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        "Than."
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        "(UK, dialect) Than."
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      "code": "sq",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "as"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "وَلَا"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "nito",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "нито"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "ani"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "noch"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "nek"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "-kä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "ni"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "nin"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "არც"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "noch"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "sem"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "se"
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    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "né"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "né"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "nec"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "arī ne"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "nach"
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      "code": "enm",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "ne"
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      "code": "no",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "eller"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "heller ikke"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "nor",
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    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
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      "sense": "nor",
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "ani"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "nem"
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      "word": "ни"
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "no"
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      "word": "neo"
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      "sense": "nor",
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "cha mhò"
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      "word": "niti"
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      "code": "sl",
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      "sense": "nor",
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "ni"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "eller"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "nor",
      "word": "ne"
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}

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        "engineering",
        "human-sciences",
        "logic",
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        "sciences"
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