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Stokes

name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

    "“In our view, on the basis of the public record, former President Donald J. Trump is constitutionally disqualified from again being President (or holding any other covered office) because of his role in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and the events leading to the January 6 attack,” law professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen wrote for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review."

  2. 2
    A locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, north Queensland, Australia.
  3. 3
    A census-designated place in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
  4. 4
    Four townships in the United States, two each in Minnesota and Ohio.
Noun
  1. 1
    A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm²/s.
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of stoke form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

Etymology 1

See stoke (verb)

Etymology 2

After George Gabriel Stokes

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