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Appetencies
Appetency Ap"pe*ten*cy, n.; pl. Appetencies. [L. appetentia, fr. appetere to strive after, long for. See Appetite.] 1. Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite. They had a strong appetency for reading. --Merivale. 2. Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate. --E. Darwin. 3. Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects.
Appetency
Appetency Ap"pe*ten*cy, n.; pl. Appetencies. [L. appetentia, fr. appetere to strive after, long for. See Appetite.] 1. Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite. They had a strong appetency for reading. --Merivale. 2. Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate. --E. Darwin. 3. Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects.
Appetent
Appetent Ap"pe*tent, a. [L. appetens, p. pr. of appetere.] Desiring; eagerly desirous. [R.] Appetent after glory and renown. --Sir G. Buck.
Centripetence
Centripetence Cen*trip"e*tence, n. Centripetency.
Centripetency
Centripetency Cen*trip"e*ten*cy, n. Tendency toward the center.
Competently
Competently Com"pe*tent*ly, adv. In a competent manner; adequately; suitably.
Incompetently
Incompetently In*com"pe*tent*ly, adv. In an competent manner; inadequately; unsuitably.
repetend
Decimal Dec"i*mal, n. A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction. Circulating, or Circulatory, decimal, a decimal fraction in which the same figure, or set of figures, is constantly repeated; as, 0.354354354; -- called also recurring decimal, repeating decimal, and repetend.
Repetend
Repetend Rep`e*tend (r?p`?-t?nd"), n. [L. repetendus to be repeated, fr. repetere to repeat.] (Math.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7..8...), the repetend is 283.

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- Petén or Peten may refer to: Petén Department, a department of Guatemala Petén Basin, the geographical/archaeological region of Mesoamerica and a center...
- Petén (from the itz'a, Noj Petén, 'Great Island') is a department of Guatemala. It is geographically the northernmost department of Guatemala, as well...
- Flores is the capital of the Petén Department, Guatemala's landlocked, northernmost department. The po****tion is 13,700 (2003). Flores is the seat of...
- Isla de Flores is an island located in Lake Petén Itzá, belongs to the Petén Department, Guatemala. The city of Flores is located on this island, which...
- The Spanish conquest of Petén was the last stage of the conquest of Guatemala, a prolonged conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas. A...
- The Petén region consists of densely forested low-lying limestone plain; a chain of fourteen lakes runs across the central drainage basin of Petén. To...
- Clément Martin Joseph Peten also known as Peut (19 November 1866 – 26 February 1929) was a Belgian parliamentarian, mayor, horse breeder, landowner, and...
- The Petén Basin is a geographical subregion of the Maya Lowlands, primarily located in northern Guatemala within the Department of El Petén, and into...
- sizeable expedition to Honduras, cutting across southern Campeche, and through Petén in what is now northern Guatemala. In 1527 Francisco de Montejo set sail...
- structures decorated with stucco masks representing gods. Nakbe in the Petén Department of Guatemala is the earliest well-do****ented city in the Maya...