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noun Mathematics.

a pole of order 1 of a function of a complex variable.

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Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.
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The reason pilots would choose to use guns over a bomb or a missile is simple.
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Still, I worry that a simple traffic stop could have tragic consequences.
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“It is the hardest to play,” one of the buglers says of this seemingly simple tune.
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Smith's method usually gives good results, as does also the more simple method of Hiss (p. 263).
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It was a mighty simple transaction, but it produced some startling results for me, that same coin-spinning.
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Knowing by experience that he would soon be up to it, he used his pole with all his might, hoping to steer clear of it.
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Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.
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Let us look over these points again, and make the matter still clearer and more simple.
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