SQUID

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
SQUID/skwɪd/

▶abbreviation Physics superconducting quantum interference device (used in some magnetometers).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
squid/skwɪd/

▶noun (pl. same or squids) an elongated, fast-swimming cephalopod mollusc with eight arms and two long tentacles. [Loligo and other genera: many species.]

■ the flesh of squid as food.

■ an artificial fishing bait resembling a squid.

▶verb (squids, squidding, squidded) fish using squid as bait.

– origin C16: of unknown origin.

'SQUID' also found in these Oxford entries:

calamari - cuttlefish - devilfish - giant squid - ink - pen - sperm whale - squid

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