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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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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

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

From Scientific American • Nov. 13, 2020

And lo, losing them straightway with the former, he went off empty-handed, helpless, and noticed not the approach of Cypris.

From The Argonautica by Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)

He would not love me now tho' Cypris bound Her girdle round me.

From Helen of Troy and Other Poems by Teasdale, Sara

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