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oe

[oi]
–noun Scot.
oy.

O⋅e

[oh-ey]
–noun
Ken⋅za⋅bu⋅ro [ken-zah-boor-oh] , born 1935, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel prize 1994.

OE

Old English (def. 1).
Also, OE.

Oe

Electricity.
oersted; oersteds.

O.E.

1. Old English (def. 1).
2. Commerce. omissions excepted.

o.e.

Commerce.
omissions excepted.
Also, oe

oy

2[oi]
–noun Scot.
1. a grandchild.
2. Obsolete. a nephew or niece.
Also, oe.


Origin:
1425–75; late ME (north and Scots) o(o), oy(e) < ScotGael ogha; see O'
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Oe  
abbr.  oersted
O·e   (ō'ā)   
Japanese writer. Strongly influenced by the French existentialists, his political and often autobiographical novels include A Personal Matter (1964) and The Silent Cry (1967). He won the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature.
OE  
abbr.  Old English
oer·sted   (ûr'stěd')   
n.   Abbr. Oe
The centimeter-gram-second electromagnetic unit of magnetic intensity, equal to the magnetic intensity one centimeter from a unit magnetic pole.

[After Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851), Danish physicist.]
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Oe
oersted
OE
Old English
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