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iswas

noun

Etymology

From is + was, i.e. for calculating where the target will be based on where it is and was.

  1. derived from *h₂wes-✻
  2. derived from *h₁es-✻
  3. derived from *bʰuH-✻
  4. inherited from *was✻
  5. inherited from wæs
  6. inherited from was
  7. compounded as iswas — “is + was”

Definitions

  1. A kind of hand-held slide rule used for predicting the location of a target based on its…

    A kind of hand-held slide rule used for predicting the location of a target based on its current and recent positions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for iswas. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA