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noun, plural -seaux 
[-zohz, -zoh] , -seaus.
[-zohz, -zoh] , -seaus. 1.
a network.
2.
a netted or meshed ground in lace.
3.
Astronomy. a network of fine lines on a glass plate, used in a photographic telescope to produce a corresponding network on photographs of the stars.
4.
Meteorology. a system of weather stations under the direction of a single agency or cooperating for common goals.
5.
Photography. a screen having minute colored filters, used in some forms of color photography.
Also, ré·seau.
Origin:
1570–80; < French réseau, Old French resel, diminutive of rais net < Vulgar Latin *rētis (singular) or *rētēs (plural), for Latin rēte
1570–80; < French réseau, Old French resel, diminutive of rais net < Vulgar Latin *rētis (singular) or *rētēs (plural), for Latin rēte
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Réseaux
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| 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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