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paras

noun

Meaning

  1. A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
  2. A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
  3. A paratrooper.
  4. A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.
  5. A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
  6. An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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