#definitions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #definitions, aggregated by home.social.
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For years I've heard the word "excelsior" attached to all sorts of grand declarations, municipalities, and even a Star Trek starship. Today I learned that the definition of this word is, " Slender, curved wood shavings used especially for packing."
I'm a touch disappointed by that.
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What's real, reality, and other such questions?
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/real-reality-ontology-ontic-a-coordinating
#philosophy #language #ontology #reality #real #sociology #words #concepts #definitions #blog #substack #spotify #podcast #video -
I enlisted ChatGPT to review my corpus and summarise my fields of interest.
It also generated this cover art. If you are interested in seeing, swing by and check it out. No charge. All eyes welcome. There is even a podcast summary for the visually impaired. I got you covered.
#philosophy #glossary #language #definitions #habits #fields #interests #discipline #blog #podcast #community #education
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Ah, another riveting revelation that "areas" need definitions! 🤔 This mind-blowing journey through #rectangles and partitions will surely redefine your life—assuming, of course, that you've never heard of #calculus before. 🙄 Bravo for connecting #integrals and #derivatives, an insight only centuries old! 🎉
https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus/ #areas #definitions #HackerNews #ngated -
Crystalline and Holographic
Two correct descriptions of reality, read from two different dimensional vantages — and why the Sensible Universe Model needs both.https://sensible-universe.com/2026/04/22/crystalline-and-holographic/
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"Color is as much a part of our lives as air, water, and taxes. And it is maddeningly, beguilingly slippery." In a new excerpt from her forthcoming book, Kory Stamper details how her work at Merriam-Webster launched her fascination with colors and the "dozens of overlapping concerns" that define them.
https://longreads.com/2026/03/19/color-dictionary-definitions-kory-stamper/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #dictionaries #definitions #colors #history #longreads
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Glossaire sur l’adaptation du discours religieux musulman en Occident
🔸 "Il s’adresse autant aux musulmans désireux de mieux comprendre et pratiquer leur foi dans un environnement occidental, qu’aux non-musulmans curieux de découvrir l’islam."
Par la Grande Mosquée de Paris
https://www.glossaire-islam.fr/
#Islam #religion #glossaire #Mosquée #Paris #France #musulmans #Occident #adaptation #vocabulaire #lexique #dictionnaire #définitions #mots #laïcité #valeurs -
Imagine if your language had a word that meant both "food" and "junk food", or at least that's how it was used in common parlance. Then people started pushing back against critiques of (junk) food, saying, "well we've always had food." This is exactly like the people (and i've seen this a lot lately) online pontificating about technology and how it's so great and important to humanity and we've always had it and in fact it predates humans. This is like saying otters busted open shells with rocks 5 million years ago so you should let your children eat nothing but takis all day long.
So. Stupid. I contend that to make an argument that collapses a term so much, conflates it with more general concepts in order to purposely confuse the issue, is gaslighting and basically makes the term meaningless, cuts off in advance any real conversation that's actually going on. fuck you people. You all know that all the modern complaints about tech are talking about _modern tech_. Do a little pattern match in your head and stick "modern" in before every use of the word "technology" and then come back and discuss in good faith.
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Quoting Andrej Karpathy In 2025, Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) emerged as the de facto new major stage to add to this mix. By training LLMs against automatically verifiable ...
#andrej-karpathy #llm #generative-ai #llm-reasoning #definitions #ai #llms #deepseek
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Hype for the Future 28C: Building an Identity on Travel and Events
geoTopFlex vs futoTopFlex In the past, novaTopFlex had identified numerous travel and cultural opportunities under the banner "futoTopFlex." In the near future, the novaTop Identity shall research potential opportunities to identify different "catchment area" zones for different major and perhaps even minor events in the community. When referring to "catchment areas" for different types of events, applications utilizing QGIS and/or OpenStreetMap data shall be redesignated geoTop content and […] -
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-minimal-that-it-challenges-definitions-of-life-20251124/
#HackerNews #Cell #Biology #Minimalism #Life #Science #Definitions
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#People really don't know the #definitions of #fascism or #Nazism anymore, and it really shows.
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What is Binary?
According to novaTopFlex, the sole reason to mention binary is if and when mentioning binary digits. For instance, 1000 is 8 in binary, so 8 in binary is 1000. What is 6 in binary? What is 7 in binary? The correct answers, of course, would be 110 and 111, respectively.
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Here's a word new to me:
Paracosm:
noun- A detailed imaginary world, especially one created by a child.
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Pretty nice & clean definition imo. Everything else follows from that.
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The word "Mythopoeia" is important in studies of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and their friends. What does it mean? #Inklings #Definitions #Words #Myth #Tolkien https://youtube.com/shorts/mLGvqsIP2og
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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions
http://vmchale.com/static/serve/taxonomy.html
#HackerNews #Obsolescence #Political #Definitions #Politics #Technology #Society
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What did J. R. R. Tolkien mean by "Recovery"?
Tolkien wrote about "Recovery" in his essay "On Fairy-Stories." What did he mean by this word? #Tolkien #reading #books #TolkienTuesday #words #definitions #Inklings -
*Youtube makertainer uses a neural net and evolutionary algorithm to generate and 3DPRint a new model aircraft. It flies, but is it a "slopject"? No Large Language Model, token system or big-data is involved. #slopject #definitions youtu.be/yQ80AqMJxUg?...
🚀 I asked A.I. to design the u... -
#Words #Definitions #Language #Firearms #Violence #Defense
We should be precise with our language —
Guns aren't used for protection. You can't protect yourself with a gun.
Shooting very small pieces of metal very fast doesn't provide you with any protection whatsoever.
What you do with a gun is always an attack.
Maybe a counter-attack, or a preventive attack, but an attack nevertheless.
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Tonight I am #CrossAtWords that are obscure or use alternate spellings in #crosswords.
ern - a sea eagle which is usually spelled erne
viand - archaic English for food, but my francophonic brain wants a final E again
anele - obsolete for anointThis word is cool though:
adit - horizontal entrance to a mine, so perpendicular to a shaftAnd I also learned that Adar is a month in the Jewish calendar.
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...even as they themselves were forced into starving, they gave what food they could find to the captives they held.
fuck your #definitions of everything....
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Today the only clue deserving #CrossAtWords was a spelled out letter S. But I do want to commemorate my new vocabulary from today's post-breakfast crossword puzzle:
sarod - Indian guitar
stere - cubic meter (!?)
ret - soak flax/hemp
tret - obscure shipping term for a waste allowance
eft - a newt (I've seen this word in several puzzles now, and this time I actually remembered it!)
bur - a prickly seed husk (aka a burr)
