insets 1 of 2

noun

Definition of insetsnext
plural of inset
as in figures

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insets

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verb

present tense third-person singular of inset
as in inserts

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  1. plates
  2. visuals
  3. representations
Noun
  • Staff now eat from smaller plates in the canteen to cut food waste; anything left goes to some of the luckiest pigs in Sweden.
    Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • That is, how our planet’s tectonic plates enable large amounts of carbon dioxide to be continually removed from earth’s atmosphere and recycled back into its crust.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of plates
Noun
  • The visuals show us things—things words never could.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The broadcast will be available with additional audio narration, describing the visuals of the parade.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of visuals
Noun
  • By the 1930s and throughout the 1940s, Benton became associated with Regionalism—among its devotees, Grant Wood—which rejected abstract expressionism and exalted realist representations of rural America.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Embeddings, simply put, are numerical representations of any object, like words, images, protein sequences, etc.
    Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of representations
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