singularity, infinite, infinitesimal, uncommon, ad infinitum, rat king

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Hunger Strikes Have Long Served as a Tool of Nonviolent Protest

Governments sometimes resort to force-feeding, a practice denounced as inhumane. But deaths like that of a Palestinian

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New York = rat kings, broken dreams; Los Angeles = ombré, Segways. In Shouts & Murmurs, one woman contends with the allure of the coastal cities.

N.Y.C. to L.A. to N.Y.C. to L.A., Ad Infinitum

Shouts & Murmurs: “I knew I needed to get back to where the real people were, the people of substance and letters.”

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On predicting his future career
"I will not be a common man because it is my right to be an uncommon man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony" - from an early poem


The time of ~ is near.

Hegal 的 "Definition of Love"

胡適日記全集 7: 1934-1939

1939.4.7 頁642
錄下某人引黑格爾Hegal 的 "Definition of Love"

  Love is the ideality of the relativity, of the reality of an infinitesimal portion of the absolute totality of the Absolute Being.

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A rat king involves a number of rats intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with, for instance, blood, dirt, ice, horse-hair, or feces—or simply knotted. The animals reputedly grow together while joined at the tails.

ad infinitum

ˌad ɪnfɪˈnʌɪtəm/

adverb

1. again and again in the same way; forever.

   "registration is for seven years and may be renewed ad infinitum"

infinitesimal[in・fin・i・tes・i・mal]

• 発音記号[ìnfinətésəməl]

[形]微小の, 極微の, 無限小の, 極小の；極微量の

to an infinitesimal degree
最小限度まで.

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1 極微量.

2 《数学》無限小.

in・fin・i・tes・i・mal・ly

[副]限りなく. 




singularity
(sĭng'gyə-lăr'ĭ-tē)
n., pl., -ties.

1. The quality or condition of being singular.
2. A trait marking one as distinct from others; a peculiarity.
3. Something uncommon or unusual.
4. Astrophysics. A point in space-time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume, and space and time to become infinitely distorted.
5. Mathematics. A point at which the derivative does not exist for a given function but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists. Also called singular point.

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1 [U]単独（性）, 単一（性）；特異（性）.

2 [U][C]((古風))異常さ, 風変わり.

3 《天文》特異点：超密度に圧縮されブラックホールを作るとされる宇宙空間の仮説上の点.

uncommon

Syllabification: (un·com·mon)

Pronunciation: /ˌənˈkämən/

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adjective

• out of the ordinary; unusual:prostate cancer is not uncommon in men over 60 an uncommon name
• [attributive] remarkably great (used for emphasis):an uncommon amount of noise

adverb

[as submodifier] archaic

remarkably:he was uncommon afraid