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dot matrix n
(computing) A two-dimensional array or pattern of dots used (for example, by a display device or a printer) to represent alphanumeric characters and pictures. (computing) Clipping of dot matrix printer. German inventor Rudolf Hell, who developed a dot-matrix-based teleprinter called the Hellschreiber in the 1920s, died on this day in 2002.
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carious adj
Having caries (“bone or tooth decay”); decayed, rotten. Today is World Oral Health Day, an annual event organized by the FDI World Dental Federation to raise awareness about oral health.
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clerihew n
A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line. English humourist and novelist Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who invented the clerihew, died on this day in 1956.
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