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millpond

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Six and a half hours sleep, this is way too low, Millpond Children’s Sleep Clinic recommends over nine for a 13yr old.

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A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.

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noun

A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for millpond.

noun

A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.

Example sentences

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Six and a half hours sleep, this is way too low, Millpond Children’s Sleep Clinic recommends over nine for a 13yr old.

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This effect radiates from the point of attack in concentric semi-circles, as do the waves from a stone dropped in the water near the edge of a millpond.

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Here he speculates about the short term memory trace that holds position dynamically, prior to physical changes in the synapse: "It might be supposed that the mnemonic trace is a lasting pattern of reverberatory activity without fixed locus like a cloud formation or eddies in a millpond" From Hebb's 1948 "Organization of Behavior"

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Here he speculates about the short term memory trace that holds position dynamically, prior to physical changes in the synapse: "It might be supposed that the mnemonic trace is a lasting pattern of reverberatory activity without fixed locus like a cloud formation or eddies in a millpond" From Hebb's 1948 "Organization of Behavior"

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How do you use millpond in a sentence?

Six and a half hours sleep, this is way too low, Millpond Children’s Sleep Clinic recommends over nine for a 13yr old.

What does millpond mean?

A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.

What part of speech is millpond?

millpond is commonly used as noun.