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Gern vs Geon - What's the difference?

gern | geon |

As a verb gern

is (obsolete) to grin.

As a noun geon is

(physics) a hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy.

gern

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To grin.
  • (obsolete) To yawn.
  • * Spenser
    • [He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern .
    (Webster 1913) ----

    geon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy.
  • (psychology) Any of a group of geometric forms capable of being recognised as a component of a real object

    • Anagrams

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