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Lethal
Definitions
- 1 Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
"Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless."
- 1 of an instrument of certain death wordnet
- 1 Any weapon that causes death.
- 2 One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. uncountable
- 3 An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lētālis (“deadly, mortal, fatal”), improperly written lēthālis, from lētum (“death”), improperly written as lēthum, from a supposed connection with Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “oblivion, forgetfulness”).
Learned borrowing from Latin lētālis (“deadly, mortal, fatal”), improperly written lēthālis, from lētum (“death”), improperly written as lēthum, from a supposed connection with Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “oblivion, forgetfulness”).
Abbreviation of “lauric acid ethereal salt”, so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
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