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quasquicentennial

[kwos-kwi-sen-ten-ee-uhl]

adjective

1.

pertaining to or marking a period of 125 years.

noun

2.

a 125th anniversary.

3.

a celebration marking such an anniversary.

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a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.

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Origin:
quasqui- one and a quarter (pseudo-Latin, apparently qua(dri-) + (se)squi-) + centenial

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