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noun
A relatively long aliphatic tail or backbone of a molecule such as a surfactant
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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noun
The group of instances at the tail (low end) of a distribution curve
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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History
From tail + group.
