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Mura vs Mora - What's the difference?

mura | mora |

As nouns the difference between mura and mora

is that mura is luminance non-uniformity of a display device while mora is a delay in bringing a claim.

As a proper noun Mura

is one of the statistical regions of Slovenia.

mura

English

Noun

(mura)
  • Luminance non-uniformity of a display device.
    • US Patent 5,917,935, Mura detection apparatus and method , 1996 [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=5917935.PN.&OS=PN/5917935&RS=PN/5917935]:
  • :: Major classes of LCFPD defects encountered at the final inspection are often pixel defects or wide-area pixel defects (also known as Mura defects).
    • NASA Scientific and Technical Information, 2008 [http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2008/ct_7.html]:
  • :: Software Simulates Sight: Flat Panel Mura Detection

    • Anagrams

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    mora

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
  • (poetics) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
  • * 1918 , Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures , volume 35, page 22:
    • In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae' and a light syllable equivalent to one ' mora .
  • (phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).

    • See also

    * syllable

    Derived terms

    * bimoraic * monomoraic * moraic * moraically * nonmoraic

    Etymology 2

    New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
  • * 1904 , W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest
    • At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any fish of the genus Mora
  • # The common mora
    • Synonyms
    * (common mora) ribaldo, (goodly-eyed cod) (US), (googly-eyed cod) (NZ)

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (-)
  • (finger-counting game)

    • Etymology 5

    From the (etyl) .

    Noun

    (morai)
  • An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.

    • Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----