Attitudinarian
a person who -ssumes att-tudes or poses for effect.
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- Attitudinize
to -ssume ; pose for effect. historical examples then ma, seizing a sword, began to att-tudinize, smearing his face all over with coal-dust. strange stories from a chinese studio vol. ii (of 2) songling pu ma then got up and began to att-tudinize, singing a plaintive air like the girls with the turbans. strange stories […]
- Attius
lucius, . historical examples to this festival there came, at the bidding of attius, a great company of the volscians. stories from livy alfred church how attius would receive him he knew not; but he was homeless, and had now only his enemies to trust. historic tales, volume 11 (of 15) charles morris to these […]
- Attlee
clement (richard) 1883–1967, british statesman: prime minister 1945–51. noun clement richard, 1st earl attlee. 1883–1967, british statesman; prime minister (1945–51); leader of the labour party (1935–55). his government inst-tuted the welfare state, with extensive nationalization
- Atto-
a combining form that enters into compounds denoting a unit one-quintillionth (10 −18) the size of the unit named by the stem. prefix denoting 10–18: attotesla, a word-forming element meaning “one quintillionth,” 1962, from danish atten “eighteen” (a quintillion is 10 to the 18th power), related to old english eahtatene (see eighteen). atto- pref. one […]
- Attolaser
noun a high-power laser capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds