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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
distinct/dɪˈstɪŋkt/
adjective
  • 1 recognizably different in nature; individual or separate.
  • 2 readily distinguishable by the senses: a distinct smell of nicotine.
– derivatives
distinctly adverb,
distinctness noun.
– origin ME: from L. distinctus ‘separated, distinguished’, from distinguere (see distinguish).



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