Geneva nomenclature

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noun Chemistry.

an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.

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Experts pointed us to identical passages in each of the four Geneva treaties, known as "Common Article 3."
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So Rhoxane could be the “queen” that local nomenclature has linked to the site.
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The world had become a different place and I found myself unequipped to interpret a whole new landmine-strewn nomenclature.
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Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.
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To break up the trip to Zaire, the two stopped in Geneva to meet with leaders at the World Health Organization.
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Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
John Alphonsus Turretini died; professor of ecclesiastical history at Geneva, distinguished for his learning.
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From Berlin we travelled to Geneva, where we spent ten days with my sister and her family (the Davidovs).
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
Voltaire lived from 1755 to 1758 at les Dlices near Geneva, and within Genevan territory.
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Calvin thereupon adopted Geneva as the site of his moral fortunes; he made it thenceforth the citadel of his ideas.
Catherine de' Medici|Honore de Balzac