Viz

//vɪz// adj, adv, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of visualization. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
  2. 2
    Clipping of visual. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
  3. 3
    Clipping of visibility. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Verb
  1. 1
    Clipping of visualize. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Adjective
  1. 1
    Clipping of visual. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of viz.. alt-of, alternative

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namelynominallythat is to say

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"The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community?"

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