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neo |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Neo- \Ne"o-\ [Gr. ? youthful, new See {New}.] A prefix meaning new recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as neopentane the neoparaffins Also used adjectively. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: neo adj : (used as a combining form) recent or new "`neo' is a combining form in words like `neocolonialism'"
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