Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contraction of half.
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- noun chemistry Symbol for
hafnium .
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- noun a grey tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals; used in filaments for its ready emission of electrons
- noun 3 to 30 megahertz
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Examples
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BANGALORE – India's Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Wednesday said it remains a creditor to Iceland's Kaupthing Bank Hf, which went bankrupt in 2008 while the software exporter was offering some technology outsourcing services.
Tata Consultancy Hopes to Recoup Iceland Loans Dhanya Ann Thoppil 2011
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Kaupthing Hf, Landsbanki Hf and Glitnir Hf were nationalized in rapid succession, capital markets froze up and financial relations with foreign nations collapsed, culminating in the U.K. government using terrorism-fighting legislation to freeze Icelandic bank assets there.
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Baugur, which employs about 50,000 people world-wide, owes Landsbanki and other Iceland banks Glitnir Banki Hf and Kaupthing Bank Hf between £1 billion ($1.48 billion) and £2 billion after a big expansion that involved buying stakes in several U.K.,
Baugur's U.K. assets 2009
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In a typical zirconium ore, there is a Zr: Hf ratio of about 50: 1.
Hafnium 2008
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Hf there really is a Bud, he probably was a Beasley.
ROB NEYER’S BIG BOOK OF BASEBALL LEGENDS ROB NEYER 2008
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Hf - I think you wiull be eating those words within 24 hours.
EXCLUSIVE: Caroline Spelman to Take Over CCHQ Within 24 Hours 2007
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Hf, enforcing property laws is a legitimate task of government in the libertarian view as is military action against enemies of the nation.
Special Geeky Guest Post: The politics of Firefly and Serenity 2006
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Hf if you danced like an elderly elephant with jprould dance the sun and moon into the sea with
Have His Carcase Sayers, Dorothy L. 1932
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So far as I.am aware, von Kupffer is the only observer who has given this startling conclusion support, in his famous "Studien" (Hf.I. Kopf Acipenser, Munchen, 1893), and from the nature of other recent work on the genesis of parts of the cranium hitherto thought to be wholly trabecular in origin, it might well be further upheld.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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So far as I.am aware, von Kupffer is the only observer who has given this startling conclusion support, in his famous "Studien" (Hf.I. Kopf Acipenser, Munchen, 1893), and from the nature of other recent work on the genesis of parts of the cranium hitherto thought to be wholly trabecular in origin, it might well be further upheld.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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