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NEO

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  1. near-earth object.
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neo-

  1. a combining form meaning “new,” “recent,” “revived,” “modified,” used in the formation of compound words: neo-Darwinism; Neolithic; neoorthodoxy; neophyte.
  2. Chemistry. a combining form used in the names of isomers having a carbon atom attached to four carbon atoms: neoarsphenamine.
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Also especially before a vowel, ne-.

Origin of neo-

< Greek, combining form of néos; akin to new
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  • It was in the Neo valley that the supreme efforts of the earthquake were manifested.

  • Remembering Neo's suggestion, I took also two other bottles of rum.

  • Hypatia started, as at a new thought, and confessed—as every Neo—Platonist would have done—that she had never done so.

    Hypatia

    Charles Kingsley

  • A few miles after entering the Neo valley, the throw of the fault reaches its maximum at Midori.

  • “He got litt'ee broomee, an' sweep paint out litt'ee pipe on thing make ship's sails,” Neo explained.

British Dictionary definitions for neo

neo-

sometimes before a vowel ne-

combining form
  1. (sometimes capital) new, recent, or a new or modern form or developmentneoclassicism; neocolonialism
  2. (usually capital) the most recent subdivision of a geological periodNeogene
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Word Origin

from Greek neos new
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Word Origin and History for neo

neo-

word-forming element meaning "new, recent," used in a seemingly endless number of adjectives and nouns, mostly coined since c.1880, from Greek neo-, comb. form of neos "new, young, youthful; fresh, strange; lately, just now," from PIE root *newo- (see new).

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neo in Medicine

neo-

pref.
  1. New; recent:neonatal.
  2. New and different:Neo-Freudian.
  3. New and abnormal:neoplasm.
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