ad infinitum
ad infinitum
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hansom, ransom, Ransome, transom
•Wrexham • sensum • Epsom • jetsam
•lissom • winsome • gypsum • alyssum
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blossom, opossum, possum
•flotsam • awesome • balsam • Folsom
•noisome • twosome
•fulsome • buxom • Hilversum
•irksome • Gresham • meerschaum
•petersham • nasturtium
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atom, Euratom
•factum
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bantam, phantom
•sanctum
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desideratum, erratum, post-partum, stratum
•substratum • rectum • momentum
•septum
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datum, petrolatum, pomatum, Tatum, ultimatum
•arboretum • dictum • symptom
•ad infinitum
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bottom, rock-bottom
•quantum
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autumn, postmortem
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factotum, Gotham, scrotum, teetotum, totem
•sputum
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accustom, custom
•diatom • anthem • Bentham • Botham
•fathom • rhythm • biorhythm
•algorithm • logarithm • sempervivum
•ovum • William
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big
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...12th century. big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum every apparently strong person is fed on and irritated by those who are weaker, and that they in turn have their own...
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deconstruction
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...deferred endlessly–as when one may look up a word in a dictionary, only to be given other words, and so on ad infinitum . While speech gives the illusion of a fixed origin–the presence of the speaker–that can guarantee...
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End of the World, Religious and Philosophical Aspects of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...toward cyclical cosmologies in which everything repeated, or even replicated exactly, the details of the previous cycle ad infinitum. In the less common linear cases, the current cycle receives a teleological significance, rendering it unique among...
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Gover, (John) Robert
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...only because the author has told him so. There is no reason why the characters might not go on in book after book, ad infinitum , like the Rover Boys. When J.C. Holland, the white middle-class protagonist, and Kitten, his black prostitute...
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Multiplier
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...goods and services. More income is thus created for the suppliers of the goods and services. This process goes on ad infinitum and the total increase in national income ends up being many times larger than the initial investment. The multiplier...
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