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Rarity vs Rar - What's the difference?

rarity | rar |

As a noun rarity

is a measure of the scarcity of an object.

As an adjective rar is

rare.

rarity

English

Noun

(rarities)
  • A measure of the scarcity of an object.
  • (chemistry, of a gas) Thinness; the property of having low density
  • *
  • (senseid)A rare object.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
    • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

    Synonyms

    * rareness

    Related terms

    * rare * rarely

    References

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    rar

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • (computing) (Roshal Archive), a proprietary data compression format.

    • Derived terms

    * unrar