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e.g. vs i.e.

e.g.

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adverb

  1. as an example

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For example, utter the words: "A house is my fire," and observe the comparative duration of time in the pronunciation of each word, the comparative stress, and the relative pitch (e.g. of _a_ and _fire_).

Several chapters cover the basics of clean room technology, e.g., lithography, etching and layer deposition techniques.

A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; _e.g. hsing_ = _hissing_ without the first _i_,

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adverb

  1. that is to say; in other words

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But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second.

To dis - cover the causes, one must first proceed a posteriori, inferring causes from effects, i.e., using first the method of resolution or analysis; then the demonstrative or compositive method can be used to develop the conse - quences.

It is an Extended Family Tree - showing all the collateral branches of a family, i.e. all the descendants.

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