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[ adjective ] extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
Synonyms Examples "an enormous boulder" "enormous expenses" "tremendous sweeping plains" "a tremendous fact in human experience"- Walter Lippman "a plane took off with a tremendous noise" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Three seconds flat is the usual time , and the space is crossed by moderate mileage , while the overwhelming immensity of such journeys must be conceived as a static pulsation through an enormous number of coexistent frequencies which perpetuate all events . (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)In the life_sciences , there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease , in the mechanisms of heredity , and in bio - and physiological chemistry . (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)This is an enormous industry that is subject_to sabotage . (Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)We devote a chapter to the binomial_distribution not_only because it is a mathematical model for an enormous variety of real_life phenomena , but also because it has important properties that recur in many other probability models . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)Willow_Run , General_Electric 's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse , the Pentagon , Boeing in Seattle , Douglas and Lockheed in Los_Angeles , the new automobile assembly plants everywhere - none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass_rapid_transit . Related terms |
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