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holothuroidea

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A class of Echinozoa characterized by a cylindrical body and smooth leathery skin, and known as sea cucumbers. There are no arms, but a ring of five or more tentacles may ...

sigma-delta converter

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A class of electronic systems containing both analog and digital subsystems whose most common application is to the conversion of analog signals to digital form and vice versa. ...

earphones

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A class of energy transducers capable of receiving alternating current and generating acoustic waves resembling very closely the characteristics of that current. The movement of ...

edrioasteroidea

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A class of extinct Echinozoa which arose early in Cambrian times and died out before the end of the Carboniferous Period. They resemble the other Echinozoa in having the ...

blastoidea

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A class of extinct Pelmatozoa in the subphylum Blastozoa which arose in the Ordovician and flourished in the Carboniferous and Permian. Blastoids did not survive the ...

ferrimagnetic garnets

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A class of ferrimagnetic oxide materials that have the garnet crystal structure. The crystal structure contains three types of nonequivalent sites in the oxygen lattice which are ...

shale

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A class of fine-grained clastic sedimentary rocks with a mean grain size of less than 0.0625 mm (0.0025 in.), including siltstone, mudstone, and claystone. One-half to two-thirds ...

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