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distinguishing

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of distinguish

  2. That serves to distinguish.

    • It has no obvious distinguishing characteristics, and therefore people are constantly ascribing to it the characteristics of other similar species.
    • The distinguishing feature of an acronym is that it is pronounced as if it were a single word, in the manner of NATO and NASA.

  3. The act by which something is distinguished or told apart.

    • There are not only these identifyings going on, but also there are distinguishings. For just as in the example above there are identifications of the various extents, there are distinguishings of these extents.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at distinguishing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at distinguishing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at distinguishing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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