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Fiction

The act of feigning inventing or imagining as by a mere fiction of the mind

geodesic dome

A domelike structure invented by R Buckminster Fuller in which straight structural parts are connected to form interlocking polygons affording great strength

Harvey process

A process of hardening the face of steel as armor plates invented by Hayward A Harvey of New Jersey consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece

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Huyghenian

Pertaining to or invented by Christian Huyghens a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century as the Huyghenian telescope

Tontine

raised on life-annuities, with benefit of survivorship. The term originated from the circumstance that Lorenzo Tonti, an Italian, invented this kind of security in the seventeenth century, when the Governments of Europe had some difficulty in raising

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