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▸ adjective:  Suitable.
▸ adjective:  Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.
▸ adjective:  Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.
▸ adjective:  (topology, of a function) Such that the preimage of every compact set is compact.
▸ adjective:  (topology, of a function) Continuous, mapping closed sets to closed sets, and such that the preimage of every point is compact.
▸ adjective:  (algebraic geometry, of a morphism of schemes) separated, of finite type, and universally closed.
▸ adjective:  (algebraic geometry, of a variety over a field k) such that unique morphism from the variety to k is proper (as above).
▸ adjective:  (mathematical analysis, of a metric space) Such that every closed ball is compact
▸ adjective:  Possessed, related.
▸ adjective:  (grammar) Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually written with an initial capital letter.
▸ adjective:  Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.
▸ adjective:  (usually postpositive) In the strict sense; within the strict definition or core (of a specified place, taxonomic order, idea, etc).
▸ adjective:  Belonging to oneself or itself; own.
▸ adjective:  (heraldry) Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics) Being strictly part of some other thing (not necessarily explicitly mentioned, but of definitional importance), and not being the thing itself.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics, physics) Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue.
▸ adjective:  Accurate, strictly applied.
▸ adjective:  Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)
▸ adjective:  (now regional) Attractive, elegant.
▸ adjective:  (often postpositive) In the very strictest sense of the word.
▸ adjective:  (now colloquial) Utter, complete.
▸ adjective:  (set theory, of a class) Not being a set.
▸ adverb:  (UK, colloquial) properly; thoroughly; completely.
▸ adverb:  (nonstandard, colloquial) properly.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Something set apart for a special use.
▸ noun:  (Christianity) A part of the Christian liturgy that varies according to the date.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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