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size [sīz]
(materials)
Materials used to surface-treat textiles, papers, and leathers; examples are starch, gelatins, casein, water-soluble gums, and waxes. Also known as sizing.
(mathematics)
The number of edges of a graph.
For a test of a hypothesis, the probability of a type I error.
size
1. Same as sizing.
2. To work a material to specified dimensions.
sizing, size
A liquid which is applied over wood, plaster, or other porous surface to fill the pores; reduces the absorption of a subsequently applied adhesive or coating; used to prepare the surface for finishing or to serve as a base for subsequent coatings.
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As I drew near it seemed to me to be a white ball of immense size and height, and when I could touch it, I found it marvellously smooth and soft.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
Nor, again, can one of vast size be beautiful; for as the eye cannot take it all in at once, the unity and sense of the whole is lost for the spectator; as for instance if there were one a thousand miles long.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
To its perfection its size bears witness, for there is no other appliance so small for the great work it has to do.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
 
 
 
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