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Listed below are | Listed below are the What's the Word segments from episodes 531-617 that may yet need to be added to the [[:Category:What's the Word?|What's the Word? category]].<br>WTW segments after Episode 617 might be nice to have added to this page so as to also list one of each word's principal definitions. | ||
*[[SGU Episode_617#What.27s_the_Word_.284:04.29|Exaptation (617)]] – ''An organ that has a function that is not what it was originally evolved for'' | |||
*[[SGU Episode_607#What.27s_The_Word_.2858:32.29|Pathology (607)]] – ''The nature of a disease, or the study of the nature of a disease.'' | |||
*[[SGU Episode_617#What.27s_the_Word_.284:04.29|Exaptation (617)]] | *[[SGU Episode_605#What.27s_the_Word_.2811:50.29|Impedance (605)]] – ''The effective resistance of an electric circuit to alternating current'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_607#What.27s_The_Word_.2858:32.29|Pathology (607)]] | *[[SGU Episode_601#What.27s_the_Word_.281:14.29|Parallax (601)]] – ''Apparent movement against a background as an observer moves'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_605#What.27s_the_Word_.2811:50.29|Impedance (605)]] | *[[SGU Episode_597#What.27s_the_Word_.2845:58.29|In Situ (597)]] – ''Being in its original position or place'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_601#What.27s_the_Word_.281:14.29|Parallax (601)]] | *[[SGU Episode_596#What.27s_the_Word_.289:58.29|Phylogenetic (596)]] – ''The evolutionary history of a species'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_597#What.27s_the_Word_.2845:58.29|In Situ (597)]] | *[[SGU Episode_595#What.27s_The_Word_.2858:54.29|Endemic (595)]] – ''Restricted to a particular region'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_596#What.27s_the_Word_.289:58.29|Phylogenetic (596)]] | *[[SGU Episode_594#What.27s_the_Word_.284:42.29|Autopoiesis(594)]] – ''A system that is self-regulating '' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_595#What.27s_The_Word_.2858:54.29|Endemic (595)]] | *[[SGU Episode_594#What.27s_the_Word_.284:42.29|Autological (594)]] – ''A word that describes itself'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_594#What.27s_the_Word_.284:42.29|Autopoiesis(594)]] | *[[SGU Episode_592#What.27s_the_Word_.281:55.29|Xerophile (592)]] – ''An organism that thrives in dry environments'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_594#What.27s_the_Word_.284:42.29|Autological (594)]] | *[[SGU Episode_591#What.27s_the_Word_.288:35.29|Relict (591)]] – ''Something that has survived from an earlier period of time'' | ||
*[[ | *[[SGU Episode_589#What.27s_the_Word_.281:02:45.29|Taphonomy (589)]] – ''The study of fossilization'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_588#What.27s_the_Word_.287:59.29|Autophagy (588)]] – ''The self-digestion of a cell's organelles'' | |||
*[[SGU Episode_591#What.27s_the_Word_.288:35.29|Relict (591)]] | *[[SGU Episode_587#What.27s_the_Word_.2858:29.29|Ultracrepidarian (587)]] – ''One who expresses opinions outside their area of expertise'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_589#What.27s_the_Word_.281:02:45.29|Taphonomy (589)]] | *[[SGU Episode_586#What.27s_the_Word_.2816:18.29|Apophenia (586)]] – ''Perceiving a connection between random things'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_588#What.27s_the_Word_.287:59.29|Autophagy (588)]] | *[[SGU Episode_585#What.27s_the_Word_.2857:10.29|Superfecundation (585)]] – ''Successive fertilization of multiple ova from the same ovulation'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_587#What.27s_the_Word_.2858:29.29|Ultracrepidarian (587)]] | *[[SGU Episode_584#What.27s_the_Word_.281:01:04.29|Comorbidity (584)]] – ''Multiple simultaneous diagnoses'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_586#What.27s_the_Word_.2816:18.29|Apophenia (586)]] | *[[SGU Episode_583#What.27s_the_Word_.2847:01.29|Thanatosis (583)]] – ''When an animal plays dead'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_585#What.27s_the_Word_.2857:10.29|Superfecundation (585)]] | *[[SGU Episode_582#What.27s_the_Word_.2845:41.29|Glycolysis (582)]] – ''The metabolic pathway that breaks down glucose'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_584#What.27s_the_Word_.281:01:04.29|Comorbidity (584)]] | *[[SGU Episode_581#What.27s_the_Word_.283:32.29|Inquiline (581)]] – ''An animal that exploits the living space of another species'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_583#What.27s_the_Word_.2847:01.29|Thanatosis (583)]] | *[[SGU Episode_580#What.27s_the_Word_.2846:41.29|Flocculation (580)]] – ''The production of fluffy masses from a colloidal suspension'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_582#What.27s_the_Word_.2845:41.29|Glycolysis (582)]] | *[[SGU Episode_579#What.27s_the_Word:_Hypnagogia_.289:00.29|Hypnagogia (579)]] – ''The state of drowsiness that immediately preceeds sleep'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_581#What.27s_the_Word_.283:32.29|Inquiline (581)]] | *[[SGU Episode_578#What.27s_the_Word:_Mondegreen_.2841:20.29|Mondegreen (578)]] – ''Word / phrase resulting from a mishearing of something that was said or sung'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_580#What.27s_the_Word_.2846:41.29|Flocculation (580)]] | *[[SGU Episode_577#What.27s_the_Word_.282:04.29|Neoteny (577)]] – ''Retention of juvenile characteristics in adult individuals of a species'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_579#What.27s_the_Word:_Hypnagogia_.289:00.29|Hypnagogia (579)]] | *[[SGU Episode_576#What.27s_the_Word_.2847:28.29|Estivation (576)]] – ''Entering a dormant state when in a hot, dry environment'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_578#What.27s_the_Word:_Mondegreen_.2841:20.29|Mondegreen (578)]] | *[[SGU Episode_575#What.27s_the_Word_.289:19.29|Apoptosis (575)]] – ''Programmed cell death'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_577#What.27s_the_Word_.282:04.29|Neoteny (577)]] | *[[SGU Episode_574#What.27s_the_Word_.2854:56.29|Paroxysmal (574)]] – '' Relating to a sudden fit, or attack during illness'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_576#What.27s_the_Word_.2847:28.29|Estivation (576)]] | *[[SGU Episode_573#What.27s_the_Word_.281:27.29|Alluvium (573)]] – ''Clay or silt that's deposited by running water'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_575#What.27s_the_Word_.289:19.29|Apoptosis (575)]] | *[[SGU Episode_572#What.27s_the_Word_.2835:20.29|Crepuscular (572)]] – ''Of, relating to, or resembling twilight'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_574#What.27s_the_Word_.2854:56.29|Paroxysmal (574)]] | *[[SGU Episode_571#What.27s_the_Word_.281:00:39.29|Eschatology (571)]] – ''In theology, the final destiny of the soul, and of mankind'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_573#What.27s_the_Word_.281:27.29|Alluvium (573)]] | *[[SGU Episode_570#What.27s_the_Word_.282:28.29|Iatrogenic (570)]] – ''An infection or injury produced inadvertently by a physician'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_572#What.27s_the_Word_.2835:20.29|Crepuscular (572)]] | *[[SGU Episode_569#What.27s_the_Word_.281:01:41.29|Cauliflory (569)]] – ''Production of flowers or fruits directly from the branches or trunks of plants'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_571#What.27s_the_Word_.281:00:39.29|Eschatology (571)]] | *[[SGU Episode_568#What.27s_the_Word_.2814:34.29|Autotomy (568)]] – ''The reflexive separation of an appendage, or other part of the body'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_570#What.27s_the_Word_.282:28.29|Iatrogenic (570)]] | *[[SGU Episode_567#What.27s_the_Word_.2825:28.29|Group animal names (589)]] – ''An obstinacy of buffalo, etc'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_569#What.27s_the_Word_.281:01:41.29|Cauliflory (569)]] | *[[SGU Episode_566#What.27s_the_Word_.281:00:25.29|Amphidromic (566)]] – ''A point where there's almost zero tides'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_568#What.27s_the_Word_.2814:34.29|Autotomy (568)]] | *[[SGU Episode_565#What.27s_the_Word_.284:43.29|Propaganda (565)]] – ''Spreading ideas to promote an institution'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_567#What.27s_the_Word_.2825:28.29|Group animal names (589)]] | *[[SGU Episode_564#What.27s_the_Word_.2839:20.29|Hyperthymesia (564)]] – ''Extremely efficacious autobiographical memory'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_566#What.27s_the_Word_.281:00:25.29|Amphidromic (566)]] | *[[SGU Episode_563#What.27s_the_Word_.280:25.29|Geodesic (563)]] – ''The shortest distance between two points'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_565#What.27s_the_Word_.284:43.29|Propaganda (565)]] | *[[SGU Episode_562#What.27s_the_Word_.283:37.29|Homophily (562)]] – ''The theory that people tend to form connections with others who are similar to them'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_564#What.27s_the_Word_.2839:20.29|Hyperthymesia (564)]] | *[[SGU Episode_561#What.27s_the_Word_.283:17.29|Foreign words that lack English equivalents (561)]] | ||
*[[SGU Episode_563#What.27s_the_Word_.280:25.29|Geodesic (563)]] | *[[SGU Episode_560#What.27s_the_Word_.281:04:05.29|Chemiosmosis (560)]] – ''Turning ADP into ATP in mitochondria'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_562#What.27s_the_Word_.283:37.29|Homophily (562)]] | *[[SGU Episode_559#What.27s_the_Word_.284:26.29|Equilux (559)]] – ''The day in which the length of dark and light are equal'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_561#What.27s_the_Word_.283:17.29|Foreign words that lack English equivalents (561)]] | *[[SGU Episode_558#What.27s_the_Word_.2840:46.29|Sciolism (558)]] – ''Opinionating on subjects of which one only has superficial knowledge'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_560#What.27s_the_Word_.281:04:05.29|Chemiosmosis (560)]] | *[[SGU Episode_557#What.27s_the_Word_.281:15.29|Thixotropy (557)]] – ''A property where shaking a substance thins it out'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_559#What.27s_the_Word_.284:26.29|Equilux (559)]] | *[[SGU Episode_553#What.27s_the_Word_.285:00.29|Pleochroism (553)]] – ''The way crystals show different colors when viewed from different directions'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_558#What.27s_the_Word_.2840:46.29|Sciolism (558)]] | *[[SGU Episode_552#What.27s_the_Word_.2851:07.29|Epistasis (552)]] – ''When combined genes have a dominant effect over other combinations'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_557#What.27s_the_Word_.281:15.29|Thixotropy (557)]] | *[[SGU Episode_551#What.27s_the_Word_.281:14.29|Words from science fiction (551)]] – ''Robotics, for example'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_553#What.27s_the_Word_.285:00.29|Pleochroism (553)]] | *[[SGU Episode_550#What.27s_the_Word_.2844:09.29|Agnatology (550)]] – '' The study of willful acts to spread confusion'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_552#What.27s_the_Word_.2851:07.29|Epistasis (552)]] | *[[SGU Episode_549#What.27s_the_Word_.283:21.29|Algorithm (549)]] – ''A set of prescribed rules for solving a problem'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_551#What.27s_the_Word_.281:14.29|Words from science fiction (551)]] | *[[SGU Episode_548#What.27s_the_Word_.2841:55.29|Fugacity (548)]] – '' The pressure of a hypothetical ideal gas that would correspond to the real gas as it exists at a given temperature, pressure, and composition'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_550#What.27s_the_Word_.2844:09.29|Agnatology (550)]] | *[[SGU Episode_547#What.27s_the_Word_.2858:23.29|Obligate (547)]] – ''A creature that is restricted to one characteristic mode of life'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_549#What.27s_the_Word_.283:21.29|Algorithm (549)]] | *[[SGU Episode_544#What.27s_The_Word_.2844:25.29|Consilience (544)]] – '' Linking together principles from different disciplines to form a theory'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_548#What.27s_the_Word_.2841:55.29|Fugacity (548)]] | *[[SGU Episode_543#What.27s_the_Word_.284:28.29|Hysteresis (543)]] – ''The lag in a variable property of a system with respect to the effect producing it as this effect varies'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_547#What.27s_the_Word_.2858:23.29|Obligate (547)]] | *[[SGU Episode_542#What.27s_the_Word_.282:09.29|Homeostasis (542)]] – ''The maintenance of internal stability in a system or organism'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_544#What.27s_The_Word_.2844:25.29|Consilience (544)]] | *[[SGU Episode_541#What.27s_the_Word_.2847:16.29|Albedo (541)]] – ''The intensity of light that's reflected from an object'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_543#What.27s_the_Word_.284:28.29|Hysteresis (543)]] | *[[SGU Episode_540#What.27s_the_Word_.283:02.29|Formication (540)]] – ''The feeling that insects are crawling all over your skin'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_542#What.27s_the_Word_.282:09.29|Homeostasis (542)]] | *[[SGU Episode_539#What.27s_the_Word_.2858:41.29|Indolent (539)]] – ''Causing little or no pain, inactive, or relatively benign'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_541#What.27s_the_Word_.2847:16.29|Albedo (541)]] | *[[SGU Episode_538#What.27s_the_Word_.2839:51.29|Canonical (538)]] – ''According to recognized rules or scientific laws'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_540#What.27s_the_Word_.283:02.29|Formication (540)]] | *[[SGU Episode_534#What.27s_the_Word_.2850:21.29|Isograd (534)]] – ''A line connecting points on the Earth where metamorphism of rocks occurred under the same conditions'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_539#What.27s_the_Word_.2858:41.29|Indolent (539)]] | *[[SGU Episode_533#What.27s_the_Word_.2849:26.29|Efferent (533)]] – ''A body part that projects outward'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_538#What.27s_the_Word_.2839:51.29|Canonical (538)]] | *[[SGU Episode_532#What.27s_the_Word_.2850:59.29|Anosmia (532)]] – ''The loss of the sense of smell'' | ||
*[[SGU Episode_534#What.27s_the_Word_.2850:21.29|Isograd (534)]] | === Redirects created/fixed, added to WTW Category === | ||
*[[SGU Episode_533#What.27s_the_Word_.2849:26.29|Efferent (533)]] | *[[Isotropy (593 WTW)|Isotropy (593)]] | ||
*[[SGU Episode_532#What.27s_the_Word_.2850:59.29|Anosmia (532)]] | *[[Stochastic (531 WTW, first one!)|Stochastic (531)]] – ''A process that is a random in the particulars, but is statistical in the aggregate'' | ||
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== Trivia == | == Trivia == |
Latest revision as of 03:37, 14 July 2023
Listed below are the What's the Word segments from episodes 531-617 that may yet need to be added to the What's the Word? category.
WTW segments after Episode 617 might be nice to have added to this page so as to also list one of each word's principal definitions.
- Exaptation (617) – An organ that has a function that is not what it was originally evolved for
- Pathology (607) – The nature of a disease, or the study of the nature of a disease.
- Impedance (605) – The effective resistance of an electric circuit to alternating current
- Parallax (601) – Apparent movement against a background as an observer moves
- In Situ (597) – Being in its original position or place
- Phylogenetic (596) – The evolutionary history of a species
- Endemic (595) – Restricted to a particular region
- Autopoiesis(594) – A system that is self-regulating
- Autological (594) – A word that describes itself
- Xerophile (592) – An organism that thrives in dry environments
- Relict (591) – Something that has survived from an earlier period of time
- Taphonomy (589) – The study of fossilization
- Autophagy (588) – The self-digestion of a cell's organelles
- Ultracrepidarian (587) – One who expresses opinions outside their area of expertise
- Apophenia (586) – Perceiving a connection between random things
- Superfecundation (585) – Successive fertilization of multiple ova from the same ovulation
- Comorbidity (584) – Multiple simultaneous diagnoses
- Thanatosis (583) – When an animal plays dead
- Glycolysis (582) – The metabolic pathway that breaks down glucose
- Inquiline (581) – An animal that exploits the living space of another species
- Flocculation (580) – The production of fluffy masses from a colloidal suspension
- Hypnagogia (579) – The state of drowsiness that immediately preceeds sleep
- Mondegreen (578) – Word / phrase resulting from a mishearing of something that was said or sung
- Neoteny (577) – Retention of juvenile characteristics in adult individuals of a species
- Estivation (576) – Entering a dormant state when in a hot, dry environment
- Apoptosis (575) – Programmed cell death
- Paroxysmal (574) – Relating to a sudden fit, or attack during illness
- Alluvium (573) – Clay or silt that's deposited by running water
- Crepuscular (572) – Of, relating to, or resembling twilight
- Eschatology (571) – In theology, the final destiny of the soul, and of mankind
- Iatrogenic (570) – An infection or injury produced inadvertently by a physician
- Cauliflory (569) – Production of flowers or fruits directly from the branches or trunks of plants
- Autotomy (568) – The reflexive separation of an appendage, or other part of the body
- Group animal names (589) – An obstinacy of buffalo, etc
- Amphidromic (566) – A point where there's almost zero tides
- Propaganda (565) – Spreading ideas to promote an institution
- Hyperthymesia (564) – Extremely efficacious autobiographical memory
- Geodesic (563) – The shortest distance between two points
- Homophily (562) – The theory that people tend to form connections with others who are similar to them
- Foreign words that lack English equivalents (561)
- Chemiosmosis (560) – Turning ADP into ATP in mitochondria
- Equilux (559) – The day in which the length of dark and light are equal
- Sciolism (558) – Opinionating on subjects of which one only has superficial knowledge
- Thixotropy (557) – A property where shaking a substance thins it out
- Pleochroism (553) – The way crystals show different colors when viewed from different directions
- Epistasis (552) – When combined genes have a dominant effect over other combinations
- Words from science fiction (551) – Robotics, for example
- Agnatology (550) – The study of willful acts to spread confusion
- Algorithm (549) – A set of prescribed rules for solving a problem
- Fugacity (548) – The pressure of a hypothetical ideal gas that would correspond to the real gas as it exists at a given temperature, pressure, and composition
- Obligate (547) – A creature that is restricted to one characteristic mode of life
- Consilience (544) – Linking together principles from different disciplines to form a theory
- Hysteresis (543) – The lag in a variable property of a system with respect to the effect producing it as this effect varies
- Homeostasis (542) – The maintenance of internal stability in a system or organism
- Albedo (541) – The intensity of light that's reflected from an object
- Formication (540) – The feeling that insects are crawling all over your skin
- Indolent (539) – Causing little or no pain, inactive, or relatively benign
- Canonical (538) – According to recognized rules or scientific laws
- Isograd (534) – A line connecting points on the Earth where metamorphism of rocks occurred under the same conditions
- Efferent (533) – A body part that projects outward
- Anosmia (532) – The loss of the sense of smell
Redirects created/fixed, added to WTW Category[edit]
- Isotropy (593)
- Stochastic (531) – A process that is a random in the particulars, but is statistical in the aggregate
Trivia[edit]
- The longest What's the Word segment was 9 minutes and 55 seconds long, in episode 543
- The shortest was a tie at 1 minute and 50 seconds in episodes 534 and 558