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1. ab-, comb. form View full entry 1904
...Prefixed to the names of units (esp. of electrical and magnetic quantities) in the practical system to form the names of the corresponding units in the centimetre-gram-second electromagnetic system, as abampere...
2. acousto-, comb. form View full entry 1928
...Forming words (chiefly in scientific and technical contexts) relating to sound waves or acoustics....
3. aero-, comb. form View full entry 1865
...With reference to air or the air....
4. † again-, comb. form View full entry OE
...Against, in opposition to. Also: opposite (rare)....
5. auto-, comb. form1 View full entry c1833
...Forming chiefly scientific terms relating to chemical, biological, or organic processes, with the sense ‘originating within or acting on the body or organism in question; self-produced; self-induced’;human activity or behaviour,...
6. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
7. bio-, comb. form View full entry 1808
...With the sense ‘biographical’, ‘comprising elements of biography’....
8. blow-, comb. form View full entry 1530
...With adverbs, denoting actions; as See also blow-out, blow-up...
9. -bot, comb. form View full entry 1966
...Forming nouns (sometimes nonce-formations) denoting a type of robot or automated device. Also in extended use, referring to a person regarded as an automaton. Cf. bot1....
10. break-, comb. form View full entry c1300
...With verb + object....
11. burn-, comb. form View full entry c1485
...With verb + object....
12. -casting, comb. form View full entry
...Forming nouns denoting broadcasting of a type specified by the first element, as newscasting, podcasting, webcasting, etc....
13. catch-, comb. form View full entry 1592
...With ns., etc., in objective relation. (The resulting combination is a , but capable also of being used attrib. or as )...
14. centi-, comb. form View full entry 1810
...combining form of Latin centum hundred, used in the French Metric system of weights and measures to denote the hundredth part of the unit, as centiare, 1...
15. check-, comb. form View full entry 1487
...Used attrib. ‘that serves to “check” or control’....
16. chryso-, comb. form View full entry 1612
...In general combinations and derivatives....
17. cross-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...General uses in combination....
18. cyber-, comb. form View full entry 1961
...Forming esp. temporary and nonce-words, as cybercubicle, cyberfeminist, cyberfriend, cyberlover, cybersnob, etc.; cyber-sheepishly adv....
19. cyclo-, comb. form View full entry 1823
...Combining form of Greek κύκλος circle (see cycle), occurring in many technical terms; e.g....
20. deca- | dec-, comb. form View full entry 1793
...having ten spines (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon1882)....
