inter se
Americannoun
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(italics) among or between themselves.
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Animal Husbandry. the mating of closely related animals to each other.
adverb
Etymology
Origin of inter se
First recorded in 1885–90, inter se is from Latin inter sē
Example Sentences
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The "inner college" will therefore merely stress the contacts inter se which students at large universities do not often enjoy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The luminosities of this white light, of the reflected beam, and of the spectral colour are compared "inter se," and there are then sufficient data with which to make numerical registration.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney
The precise form which these subcortical combinations will assume in response to any particular excitation is in large measure determined by the structural connections inter se....
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
In his prefatory remarks upon the goat, Buffon complains of the want of systematic and certified experiment as to what breeds and species will be fertile inter se, and with what results.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler
Between any two of the birds that gladden the sea-shore, the river banks, or the woods, there is some difference in outward appearance— Invenies tamen inter se differre figuris65.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
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