controlled release

con·trolled-re·lease

[kuhn-trohld-ri-lees]
adjective
(of a substance, as a medicine or insecticide) released or activated at predetermined intervals or gradually over a period of time.
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Controlled release is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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.
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