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Cypris

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[sip-ris] / ˈsɪp rɪs /

noun

  1. an epithet of Aphrodite, meaning “Lady of Cyprus.”


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Cypris Materials creates structure-based colorants using what are known as self-assembling block copolymers.

From Scientific American Nov. 13, 2020

The new colorants come in a powdered form that Cypris Materials says can be incorporated into manufacturing processes—added to paint in an automotive spray gun, for example, or mixed into nail polish.

From Scientific American Nov. 13, 2020

But now chemists at a Berkeley, Calif.–based start-up called Cypris Materials say they are closing in on a way to do so.

From Scientific American Nov. 13, 2020

The hands are the hands, in both poems, of Aphrodite: the voices are respectively those of Cypris and of Urania.

From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Nay, when in might she swoops, no strength can stem Cypris; and if man yields him, she is sweet; But is he proud and stubborn?

From Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides

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