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Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Rosetta-stone
rō-zet′a-stōn, n. a slab of black basalt found at Rosetta in Egypt in 1799, having inscribed upon it, in hieroglyphics, demotic or enchorial, and Greek, a decree in honour of Ptolemy V.—the first clue to the decipherment of hieroglyphics.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Rosetta-stone in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Rosetta-stone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of Rosetta-stone in a Sentence
The term Rosetta Stone is used too often as an analogy when we find a new astrophysical object, but in this case I think it is fitting, this supernova is literally helping us decode thousand-year-old records from cultures all over the world.
[The back end of the skull] turned out to be the Rosetta stone, it's a very complex part of the anatomy that we can easily compare to a lot of other dinosaurs, and that's what told us we definitely had a tyrannosaur, that it was a new species, and that it was only about the size of a horse.
People use the term' Rosetta Stone' a lot. But this is the first time we've been able to verify the mass with these three different methods for one supernova, and all of them are consistent, now we can push forward using these different methods and combining them, because there are a lot of other supernovas where we have masses from one method but not another.
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