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Definition of palimpsests in English Turkish dictionary
- palimpsest
- eski zamanda üzerindeki yazı silinerek yeniden başka yazı yazılmış parşomen
- palimpsest
- (isim) yeniden yazılmış parşömen
- palimpsest
- silinmiş parşömen
- palimpsest
- {i} yeniden yazılmış parşömen
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Definition of palimpsests in English English dictionary
- third-person singular of palimpsest
- plural of palimpsest
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- On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day
Typically refers to a multi-layered work, e.g.λ new ads covering old on a roadside sign.
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- Memory that has been erased and re-written
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- Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side
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- To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse
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- Refers to a landscape in which most of the topographic features are not related to the materials at the land surface but are inherited from a buried surface at depth
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- A parchment on which the original writing has been effaced, and something else has been written (Greek, palin, again; psao, I rub or efface ) When parchment was not supplied in sufficient quantities, the monks and others used to wash or rub out the writing in a parchment and use it again As they did not wash or rub it out entirely, many works have been recovered by modern ingenuity Thus Cicero's De Republica has been restored; it was partially erased to make room for a commentary of St Augustine on the Psalms Of course St Augustine's commentary was first copied, then erased from the parchment, and the original MS of Cicero made its appearance “Central Asia is a palimpsest; everywhere actual barbarism overlays a by gone civilisation”- The Times
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- Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity
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- Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface
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- Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form
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- A Papyrus roll which has been wiped clean, and is ready to be re-used
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- a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
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- Vellum that was previously used for a writing surface that has been scraped clean and dressed and then another writing is made on the surface Codex Ephraemi rescriptus is one of these It is possible to use certain chemicals and ultraviolet light to uncover the writings underneath the second writing
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- From the Greek palimpsestos ("scraped again"), a palimpsest is reused writing support material from which theunderlying text has been erased (by washing in the case of papyrus and by using scraping devices in the case of parchment) Erasure was not always complete and an underlying text can often be read with the assistance of ultraviolet light
- palimpsest
- {i} parchment or tablet that has been erased for reuse, writing surface that has been used and wiped clean
- palimpsest
- A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written. Many historical texts have been recovered using ultraviolet light and other technologies to read the erased writing
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- Any writing SUPPORT (parchment, paper, or papyrus) whose original text has been erased and which has been subsequently reused to receive other writing The original text may still be visible or recoverable through the use of ultra-violet light
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- an ancient document on which the original writing has been covered over with new writing (palimpsestus, from , from palin + psen )
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- A palimpsest is a parchment manuscript which contained writing but has been scraped, washed off, smoothed and rewritten upon Of the 250 uncial manuscripts of the New Testament known today, 52 are palimpsests It is only through the use of modern technology, such as chemical reagents and ultraviolet light, that the obliterated writing is able to be read
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- A block of memory(2) that has been allocated, freed (or reclaimed), and then allocated again Such memory may contain data from the previous use if portions of it remain uninitialised This commonly occurs on the stack, especially if the compiler allocates large stack frames in anticipation of allocating data structures on the stack If the palimpsest is being scanned conservatively, such left-over data may cause unreachable objects to appear reachable and thus become floating garbage If it is scanned precisely, such left-over data, if treated as pointers, is a bug
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- a parchment tablet that has been written 2 or 3 times and the previous texts were imperfectly erased and partly visible
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- A circular feature on the surface of dark icy moons such as Ganymede and Callisto lacking the relief associated with craters; Pamlimpsests are thought to be impact craters where the topographic relief of the crater has been eliminated by slow adjustment of the icy surface
- palimpsest
- A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second
- palimpsest
- \PAL-ump-sest\, noun: 1 A manuscript, usually of papyrus or parchment, on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible 2 An object or a place whose older layers or aspects are apparent beneath its surface