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landmass

noun
/ˈlænd.mæs/UK

Etymology

From land + mass.

  1. derived from *maǵ-✻ — “to oil, knead”
  2. derived from μᾶζα — “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”
  3. derived from massa
  4. derived from masse
  5. compounded as landmass — “land + mass”

Definitions

  1. A large, continuous area of land surrounded by sea or contiguous with another landmass.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at landmass

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA