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'Flotsametrics and the Floating World'

By CURTIS EBBESMEYER and ERIC SCIGLIANO
Reviewed by PAUL GREENBERG

A look at how the flow of ocean debris around the world reveals the “music” of the world’s oceans.

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One thing I came to realize was that I just didn't know whether my wife had ever had an orgasm. She often seemed to enjoy our relationship, so I assumed I ...

writ large

Signified, expressed, or embodied with greater magnitude, as in That book on Lincoln is simply an article writ large. [Mid-1600s]

orgasm 

Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɡaz(ə)m/ 

NOUN

The climax of sexual excitement, characterized by intensely pleasurable feelings centred in the genitals and (in men) experienced as an accompaniment to ejaculation:she managed to achieve an orgasm[MASS NOUN]: they don’t know what it is to reach orgasm

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VERB

[NO OBJECT]

Have an orgasm.

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Origin

Late 17th century: from French orgasme, or from modern Latin orgasmus, from Greekorgasmos, from organ 'swell or be excited'.

orgasm 
noun [C or U]
the moment of greatest pleasure and excitement in sexual activity:
to have an orgasm
to achieve/reach orgasm

orgasm
verb [I]

orgasmic 
adjective
1 relating to orgasm

2 INFORMAL producing feelings of great pleasure or excitement:
Their chocolate mousse is simply orgasmic.


flotsam
━━ n. （難破船の）破片.
flotsam and jetsam　浮き荷, 漂流物; がらくた; ((集合的)) 浮浪

• 名
• 難破船の漂流物、がらくた◆【語源】ラテン語 flottare(flood)

The word "flotsametrics" is not in standard dictionaries, but readers of Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano's Flotsametrics and the Floating World will quickly understand what it means. For clarity's sake, Ebbesmeyer has a glossary in the back of his book. Coined by his coworker Jim Ingraham in 2001, "flotsametrics" is simply "the quantitative study of flotsam."