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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("at" is a kind of...):
Laotian monetary unit (monetary unit in Laos)
Holonyms ("at" is a part of...):
kip (the basic unit of money in Laos)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
Synonyms:
astatine; At; atomic number 85
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("At" is a kind of...):
chemical element; element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
halogen (any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions)
Context examples:
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
At sight of Mr. Utterson, he sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Then he passed his hand over his eyes several times and at last turned back into the house.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“May I ask, in the first place, why you came to me at all?”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The Abbot was still on his knees, when a gentle tapping at the door of his cell broke in upon his orisons.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At first they told me he was fighting the French, and then after some years one heard less about the French and more about General Buonaparte.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The study, led by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, found that the sensors in smartphones and similar devices could be used to build earthquake warning systems.
(Crowdsourced Smartphone Data Could Give Advance Notice for People in Quake Zones, JPL)
The effect is most pronounced near sunset, when light from the sun passes through a longer path in the atmosphere than it does at mid-day.
(Sunset in Mars' Gale Crater, NASA)
Based on photographs of RMS Titanic at the shipyard that built it in Belfast, Ireland, he suggested fire by spotting large black streaks in the region struck by the iceberg.
(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)
