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I later saw in the paper that they'd hired someone else, who was reporting to the CFO.

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Quick take

a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of paper gathered in one view.

noun

a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

noun

an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition"

noun

a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements; "he read his newspaper at breakfast"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for paper.

noun

a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

noun

an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition"

noun

a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements; "he read his newspaper at breakfast"

noun

a medium for written communication; "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd"

noun

a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses; "he has written many scientific papers"

noun

a business firm that publishes newspapers; "Murdoch owns many newspapers"

noun

the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher; "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper"

verb

cover with paper; "paper the box"

verb

cover with wallpaper

Example sentences

I later saw in the paper that they'd hired someone else, who was reporting to the CFO.

Second, if that were the case, then why are people allowed to read books, magazines, and play crossword puzzles on paper?

Reading a book on a Kindle will not cause more distraction during an emergency than reading one on paper.

By the time we reached Calculus I was still doing most of it in my head, as I had never really learned to write it out on paper.

You feel you're home....Now, in alternate reality, a nonmathematician-you also tries to read the same paper.

Maybe that's all accounted for in their paper in a compelling way, but I honestly don't see any way they could ever argue for more than a very limited negative result.

After a point is added to a group, the mean of that groups is adjusted in order to take account of that new pointHey, so there was an intuitive explanation in that paper after all!

It seems as though our entire country is hopelessly addicted to accumulating more and more pieces of green paper, only to be puzzled when having a large number in their bank account fails to actually solve any of their problems.

One of the easiest things to do in poetry is to lose the reader--a great poet can put an incredibly complicated multilayered concept onto a small amount of paper--and require a graduate-level understanding from the reader to understand it.

It's also, incidentally, a fundamental paper of libertarian economics.

But, since you only made it through the few paragraphs of the paper, you missed an intuitive explanation that's right there on that page from an paper reproduced by that blog post:Stated informally, the k-means procedure consists of simply starting with k groups each of which consists of a single random point, and thereafter adding each new point to the group whose mean the new point is nearest.