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forerunner

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ForeRunner
A family of ATM adapters from Marconi (formerly Fore Systems). See Marconi.
forerunner [′fȯr‚rən·ər]
(oceanography)
Low, long-period ocean swell which commonly precedes the main swell from a distant storm, especially a tropical cyclone.


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The idea of the story had suggested itself to him, we are told, before he had finished its immediate forerunner, "The Last of the Mohicans.
This terrible spectacle was the forerunner of the series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus was destined to meet with in its route.
It was a warm evening for the time of year, and even in those gray streets of South London there was the languor of February; nature is restless then after the long winter months, growing things awake from their sleep, and there is a rustle in the earth, a forerunner of spring, as it resumes its eternal activities.
 
 
 
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