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elektra

[ ih-lek-truh ]

noun

  1. an electronic navigational system establishing approximate position through coincidence in amplitude of two radio signals.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of elektra1

Special use of Greek ḗlektra, plural of ḗlektron. See electron

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Example Sentences

And there was a time, prior to the one-two punch of Catwoman and Elektra, when superhero films were championed minority heroes.

Then again, death is anything but permanent in the comic world, as Clark Kent, Jean Gray, and Elektra, among others, can attest.

She chose a full-frontal nude for the cover of Hard Times for Lovers, but Elektra went with a far-less-daring, more discreet shot.

You were on a major label, got dropped, went to an independent label, and now you are on a major label, Elektra/Asylum, again.

The score of "Elektra" he permits his publishers to snatch from him before he is quite finished with it.

Lady Macbeth as a child might have been like that—or Antigone with the doom on her, or perhaps Elektra.

Great play is made in Strauss's Elektra with the "slippery blood" motive.

Phaedra and Elektra, not even so virtuous as Mary, who failed of being what she should be!

And as Chrysothemis, shocked, recoils from the task, Elektra determines to complete it alone.

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