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prefix
Forming classification names for classes of organic compounds that contain a carbon skeleton and one or more aromatic rings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
prefix
Used to form the names of inverse hyperbolic functions, and the symbols for these functions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Topics: mathematics, sciences, trigonometry
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Synonyms: arc-, a-, -1
Antonyms: none provided
prefix
Alternative form of ad- (“to, toward”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
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Synonyms: none provided
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History
Extracted from the word aromatic.
Shortened from area (because the function describes the area under a hyperbola), by analogy with arc-, the corresponding prefix for the circular trigonometric functions.
Assimilated form of ad- before r. From Latin ad-.
