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Definition
a sample regarded as typical of its class; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
- Yet these people were clothed in pleasant fabrics that must at times need renewal, and their sandals, though undecorated, were fairly complex specimens of metalwork.Chapter 5 (46% in)
- One corner I saw was charred and shattered; perhaps, I thought, by an explosion among the specimens.Chapter 8 (84% in)
- The Psychologist leant forward to see, holding out his hand for a specimen.Chapter 12 (45% in)
- If you'll stop to lunch I'll prove you this time travelling up to the hilt, specimen and all.Chapter 12 (80% in)
- At the risk of disappointing Richardson I stayed on, waiting for the Time Traveller; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him.Chapter 12 (98% in)
There are no more uses of "specimen" in The Time Machine.
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