centenary

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And how many are born on the centenary of a previous great physicists death?

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the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

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noun

the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

adjective

of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years; "centennial celebration"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for centenary.

noun

the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

adjective

of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years; "centennial celebration"

Example sentences

And how many are born on the centenary of a previous great physicists death?

Marxists keep telling people what they want, and of course lying to them, even as the bodies are piling up. At the centenary of Russian Revolution, with 50 million dead, it's hard to believe one can still see hammer and sickles around the place.

That's why, I think, the centenary is going to be so quiet: it's not a history that the Russians can use to go anywhere; it doesn't have any positive uses for them.

Perhaps that war had a higher profile in 1912, it being the centenary?Also, it's interesting that several questions basically come down to the student knowing the definition of imperials units like cords or the number feet in a mile.

“There may not be any programming a thousand years from now, but Iʼm willing to wager that some form of Dahlʼs ideas will still be familiar to programmers in fifty years, when Simula celebrates its centenary.”I wonder if the former is at all possible, will programming transcend to some higher level of sophistication that obviates the need for code, or language for that matter?Or is there a way for code to attain the level of pure math, something independent of any specific language?