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quick Biology

1. composed of living plants

2. any area of living flesh that is highly sensitive to pain or touch, esp that under a toenail or fingernail or around a healing wound

quick [kwik]

(geology)

Referring to a sediment that, when mixed with or absorbing water, becomes extremely soft, incoherent, or loose, and is capable of flowing easily under load or by force of gravity.

Referring to a soil in which a decrease in effective stress allows water to flow upward with sufficient velocity to reduce significantly the soil's bearing capacity.

Referring to a highly porous soil that readily absorbs heat.

(mining engineering)

Referring to an economically valuable or productive mineral deposit.

(language)

QUICK - An early system on the IBM 701.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].

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