whitehead

[ hwahyt-hed, wahyt- ]
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noun
  1. a small pimple having a white or yellowish head; milium.

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1
First recorded in 1930–35; white + head

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Whitehead
[ hwahyt-hed, wahyt- ]

noun
  1. Alfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.

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Whitehead

/ (ˈwaɪtˌhɛd) /


noun
  1. Alfred North. 1861–1947, English mathematician and philosopher, who collaborated with Bertrand Russell in writing Principia Mathematica (1910–13), and developed a holistic philosophy of science, chiefly in Process and Reality (1929)

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