Search results for 'pale':

pale green (adjective) : environmentally conscious only if convenient or expedient

Submitted by: Val M from Pennsylvania on Oct. 30, 2009 22:31

paleogenetics (noun) : a branch of science that applies the methods of genetics to the study of early humans and other ancient populations

He was skeptical of paleogenetics until the geneticist (or paleogeneticist) resurrected the Mammoth's 10,000-year-old DNA.

Submitted by: Adam Flanders from Maine on Jan. 13, 2009 14:40

paleometric (adjective) : Having a primitive, outdated basis of physical units.

The US gallon is a paleometric unit of volume, compared to the litre. —Michael Phelan, invented, 26/09/2005

Submitted by: Mike from Canada on Sep. 26, 2005 18:58

Paleonoic era (adjective) : (Gr palaios, ancient + Gr noos, mind; cf. Paleozoic era, from Gr zoe, life) – the current epoch of ancient mind, of the first intelligent machines; the era that in the history of consciousness occupies a similar place to that of the Paleozoic era in the history of life.

Looking at ourselves from the perspective of a distant future, we appear to be people of the Paleonoic era, when the first non-biological forms of mind were just emerging, when the forces of thinking were first released from the prison of the cranium with the creation of computers and other self-organising forms of artificial intelligence. —Mikhail Epstein, "Début de siecle", 2001

Submitted by: Mikhail Epstein from Georgia Us on Mar. 31, 2007 19:05

Paleontographer (noun) : Paleontographer refers to anyone who uses medical imaging technology to scan fossils; mainly CT scanning or any non-invasive scanning technology.

The paleontographer scanned the fossilized dinosaur egg to reveal a Tyrannosaur fetus. —Sean Mclain Brown, Sierra Madre Mountain News (Volume Two, Issue 30), February 1999

Submitted by: Sean Mclain Brown from California on Jul. 27, 2007 19:33

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