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85

adjective
1.
Being five more than eighty.  Synonyms: eighty-five, lxxxv.



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... experiment of fig. 51, the E.M.F. between the zinc and copper ends was found to be .85 volt. This was balanced by a potentiometer arrangement, so that the galvanometer spot came to zero. On vibrating the zinc wire, a deflection of 33 dns. was obtained, in a direction which showed an increase of E.M.F. On stopping the vibration, the spot of light came back to zero. ...
— Response in the Living and Non-Living • Jagadis Chunder Bose

... I can't give you 27. It's been taken for a week. I reserved 85 for you, and had to hold on with ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr

... faint in even sleeping; Our temple-gates are opened wide, Our olive-groves thick shade are keeping 80 For these majestic forms"—they cried. Oh, then we awoke with sudden start From our deep dream, and knew, too late, How bare the rock, how desolate, Which had received our precious freight. 85 Yet we called out—"Depart! Our gifts once given must here abide. Our work is done; we have no heart To mar ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... level of the Black Sea; and as in both cases the surface must once have been continuous, it is clear that the water of either sheet must have dried up to a very considerable extent. But, while the Caspian has shrunk only to 85 feet below the Black Sea, the Dead Sea has shrunk to the enormous depth of 1,292 feet below the Mediterranean. Every now and then, some enterprising De Lesseps or other proposes to dig a canal from the Mediterranean ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... Hegel's influence. 85. The type of his vision is impressionistic, 87. The 'dialectic' element in reality, 88. Pluralism involves possible conflicts among things, 90. Hegel explains conflicts by the mutual contradictoriness of concepts, 91. Criticism of his attempt ...
— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James


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