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shortening

noun

Definitions

  1. Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as…

    Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.

  2. verbal noun of shorten

    verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.

  3. present participle and gerund of shorten

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at shortening

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

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