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  • 1Certain — Cer tain, n. 1. Certainty. [Obs.] Gower. [1913 Webster] 2. A certain number or quantity. [Obs.] Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 2Number needed to harm — The number needed to harm (NNH) is an epidemiological measure that indicates how many patients need to be exposed to a risk factor over a specific period to cause harm in one patient that would not otherwise have been harmed.[1] It is defined as… …

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  • 3certain — 01. Geoff is [certain] to attend the party. He never misses a chance to drink beer with the gang. 02. She is [certain] to pass. Her marks have been excellent all term. 03. The doctor isn t [certain] if it is necessary to operate at this point. 04 …

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  • 4Number Munchers — Screenshot of Number Munchers; the player controls the green muncher character seen at center. Number Munchers is an educational/edutainment computer game in the Munchers series produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC)… …

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  • 5number — Synonyms and related words: G, M, a certain number, a few, a number, account, act, add up, add up to, afterpiece, aggregate, aggregate to, amount, amount to, apportion, army, art, article, back matter, back number, batch, beat, bevy, billion, bit …

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  • 6number — amount, number Amount is normally used with uncountable nouns (i.e. nouns which have no plural) to mean ‘quantity’ (e.g. a reasonable amount of forgiveness, glue, resistance, straw, etc.), and number with plural nouns (e.g. a certain number of… …

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  • 7certain annuity — /ˌsɜ:t(ə)n ə nju:ɪti/ noun an annuity which will be paid for a certain number of years only …

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  • 8Certain People I Know — Single by Morrissey from the album Your Arsenal Released 7 December 1992 …

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  • 9Certain Affinity — Type Video game developer Industry Computer and video games Founded 2006 Headquarters Austin, Texas, USA Key people Max Hoberman (President) …

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  • 10Certain Things Are Likely — is a 1987 single by British synthpop group Kissing the Pink. The single was the most successful of three dance chart entries, hitting number one for three weeks. The song also made the Hot 100, peaking at #97. In film Certain Things Are Likely… …

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