15 : Idioms & Phrases
15 august 1945
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noun the date of Allied victory over Japan, World War II
V-J Day.
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15 may organization
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noun a terrorist organization formed in 1979 by a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine but disbanded in the 1980s when key members left to join a faction of al-Fatah
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15 minutes
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noun a quarter of an hour
quarter-hour.
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atomic number 15
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noun a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
P; phosphorus.
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august 15
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noun celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church
Assumption; Assumption of Mary.
