kennings

noun

plural of kenning, chiefly Scottish
as in fractions

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  1. fractions
  2. atoms
  3. nutshells
  4. molecules
  5. snippets
  6. whispers
  7. fragments
  8. ounces
Noun
  • Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines is designed for continuous machine-to-machine transactions, including microtransactions worth fractions of a cent.
    — Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The brightly colored insects, native to Australia, are small — just fractions of an inch long — with colors that pop under a microscope.
    — Brad Balukjian, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of fractions
Noun
  • This material is where all the atoms in a gas occupy the exact same quantum state, producing weird quantum effects at unusually macroscopic scales.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
  • This thermal burst causes nearby atoms to vibrate randomly before the lattice settles down again.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of atoms
Noun
  • Archaeobotanists find various parts of plants, including seeds, chaff, fruit pits, nutshells and cobs.
    — Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • And these nutshells that are now all restored have been used for that purpose for more than eight decades.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
Definition of nutshells
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  • The 2026 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Henri Kagan of the Universite Paris-Sud, in France, and Kenso Soai of the Tokyo University of Science, in Japan, for their work exploring the fundamental geometry of molecules.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
  • At the center of the MOF are positively charged metal ions connected by organic linker molecules.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of molecules
Noun
  • The documentary’s new No-Movies are slightly longer, but still snippets of less than five minutes.
    — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The clip features snippets of the personal testimonies given by Perry’s close friends and family, as well as words from Perry himself.
    — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of snippets
Noun
  • There were whispers and exchanged glances; Ono couldn’t make it through a single slide without a fresh wave of questions.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Shawn slept on a thin mattress on the floor of his parents’ room, lying awake each night to their furious whispers, long after the lights had been turned out.
    — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of whispers
Noun
  • The star is 2,160,000 ppb of low-molecular-weight collagen—in other words, smaller collagen fragments that help draw moisture to skin for a plumper, firmer look.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 7 Oct. 2026
  • This test, as well as others like it, can detect tiny fragments of free-floating DNA in the blood.
    — H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of fragments
Noun
  • At the world championship, leave more than four ounces behind across your four bottles and you’re disqualified.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2026
  • For breakfast, because Kramnic cannot eat dairy, deputies gave Kramnic two ounces of a potato.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of ounces
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