an whitehead

White·head

[hwahyt-hed, wahyt-]
noun
Alfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.
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Whitehead (ˈwaɪtˌhɛd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Alfred North. 1861--1947, English mathematician and philosopher, who collaborated with Bertrand Russell in writing Principia Mathematica (1910--13), and developed a holistic philosophy of science, chiefly in Process and Reality (1929)

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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.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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whitehead white·head (wīt'hěd')
n.

  1. A tiny epidermal cystlike mass with a narrow or obstructed opening on the skin surface, which may rupture, caused by the retention of secretions of a sebaceous gland. Also called closed comedo.

  2. See milium.

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