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noun
1.
Civil Engineering.
a.
a conduit or artificial channel for conducting water from a distance, usually by means of gravity.
b.
a bridgelike structure that carries a water conduit or canal across a valley or over a river.
2.
Anatomy. a canal or passage through which liquids pass.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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aqueduct aq·ue·duct (āk'wĭ-dŭkt')
n.
A channel or passage in a body part or an organ.
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