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The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter.
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An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector
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Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty.
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In a paramount manner.
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Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
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A paramagnetic substance.
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Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
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Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.
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See Parament.
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The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.
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A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.
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A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
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The dominion or authority of a suzerain; paramount authority.
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Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.
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A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.
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A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.
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Alt. of Paramours
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To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.
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That can be passed over in a single course; -- said of a curve when the coordinates of the point on the curve can be expressed as rational algebraic functions of a single parameter /.
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