Etymology of RE

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Source etymology 1

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prep

Alternative form of re (“regarding”).

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

See at re.

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Source etymology 2

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name

Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army. · The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India. · Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.

symbol

Earth radius: the radius of planet Earth, regarded as a unit of measurement. · The radius of the Earth specifically.

noun

Initialism of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a “yes” answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time. See more at RE (complexity) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia · Initialism of religious education. · Initialism of rare earth. · Initialism of response element.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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