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epigram
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ep·i·gram
/ ˈepiˌgram/
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n.
a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.
∎
a short poem, esp. a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending.
DERIVATIVES:
ep·i·gram·ma·tist
/ ˌepiˈgramətist/ n.
ep·i·gram·ma·tize
/ ˌepiˈgraməˌtīz/ v.
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Epigram's iLine10 Home Networking Product Wins Comdex 'Best New Technology' Award.
Business Wire; 11/19/1998; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 1998--Epigram, the leader in high-speed home networking...high honor in the field of technology. Epigram's iLine10 was selected by a distinguished...judges from PC Week and the industry. Epigram's technology allows millions of users...
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Epigram Licenses Patented Technology From Tut Systems.
PR Newswire; 4/7/1999; 700+ words
; Partnership Gives Epigram's iLine10 Chipset Backwards Compatibility...to fabless integrated circuit-vendor Epigram, Inc. Tut's 1 Megabit per second...without interruption of voice services. Epigram's internally developed iLine10(TM...
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Epigram and Texas Instruments Integrate High-Speed Home Networking and ADSL Access; Epigram High Speed Home Networking Integrated Into Leading Family of TI Digital Signal Processors.
Business Wire; 11/12/1998; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 1998--Epigram and Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE...multi-faceted relationship to apply Epigram's 10 Megabits-per-second (Mbps...also yield new networking solutions with Epigram's 10 Mbps home Ethernet networking technology...
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Epigram Named Among UPSIDE Magazine's 1999 Hot 100 Private Companies; Coveted UPSIDE Hot 100 Award recognizes innovation, leadership and performance.
Business Wire; 5/12/1999; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1999-- Epigram, Inc. today announced it has been selected...Frank, Executive Vice President and an Epigram founder. "Home phoneline technology...this industry award. UPSIDE felt that Epigram has what it takes to be considered among...
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The religious epigram in early Stuart England.
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...2) The secular epigram in England had reached...Jonson's English epigrams and John Owen's...of the religious epigram in England in the...the origins of the epigram form. This places Saltmarsh's epigrams in relation to the...
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Broadcom Corporation to Acquire Epigram, Inc., a Leading Provider of Home Networking Silicon.
Business Wire; 4/26/1999; 700+ words
; ...signed a definitive agreement to acquire Epigram, Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based...products for high-speed home networking. Epigram is the leader in developing and delivering...throughout the home or small office. Epigram's products enable high-speed connections...
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A brief for the epigram
Magazine article from: Parnassus : Poetry in Review; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...The Mortal City: 100 Epigrams of Martial.. Translated...R Slavitt, Epic and Epigram: Two Elizabethan Entertainments...what makes a poem an epigram ever got hammered out...content or tenor. Yes, epigrams are often pointed and...ceases to function as an epigram and assumes the molecular...
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Epigram iLine10 Chipsets Drive Microsoft Home Phoneline Networking Demonstration at WinHEC `99; 10 Mbps Phoneline Networking Plugs-in Universal Plug and Play.
Business Wire; 4/6/1999; 700+ words
; ...the lingua franca of the Internet, Epigram is demonstrating high-speed 10 Megabits...Engineering Conference 1999 (WinHEC `99). Epigram also has several 10 Mbps phoneline networking demonstrations at the Epigram booth -- booth No. 726 on the WinHEC...
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Panasonic Takes Equity Stake in Epigram, Inc.; Epigram's 10 Mbps Network Expertise Finds Home in New High-Speed Networked Panasonic Products.
Business Wire; 3/11/1999; 700+ words
; ...Industrial Co., Ltd. (MEI), and Epigram, Inc. today announced that PDCC will make its first-ever U.S. investment in Epigram, Inc. MEI, best known for the Panasonic...incorporate home networking capabilities. Epigram's technology permits unprecedented high...
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Broadcom's Epigram Deal Buys Networking Expertise.
Magazine article from: Multichannel News; 5/3/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...deal last week to buy fellow chipmaker Epigram Inc., which specializes in that area...based cable-modem chips, decided to buy Epigram after taking some steps to add home...didn't know that we were that close to Epigram," Broadcom vice president of marketing...
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epigram
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
epigram a short, polished, pithy...inscriptions on stones. The epigrams of the Latin poet Martial...later writers. In England the epigram flourished in the work of...who are noted for their epigrams include Yeats, Pound, Roy...
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Epigrams, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Epigrams, The, a collection of poems by Jonson , printed 1616, including ‘Inviting a Friend to Supper’, ‘On My First Son’, ‘The Famous Voyage’, and addresses to Donne and King James.
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Marcus Valerius Martialis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...lasting contribution: the epigram before Martial was characterized...Whipple, Martial and the English Epigram from Sir Thomas Wyatt to Ben...Nixon, Martial and the Modern Epigram (1927); and A. G. Carrington, Aspects of Martial's Epigrams (1960). Martial figures...
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John Harington
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...for worse. His work includes numerous epigrams, the first English translation of Ludovico...He began his career as a writer of epigrams as soon as he arrived at Court, and quickly obtained a reputation as a wit." Epigrams, short, witty, and satirical poetic...
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Perseus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Gemintis, Proclus says that Perseus wrote an epigram upon his discovery, “ Three...it understand or to reconcile with the epigram. G. V. Schiaparelli showed how three...to give a novel interpretation to the epigram. 6 If r is the radius of the generating...
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