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faint

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of faint in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of faint in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of faint in a Sentence

  1. Scott Sheppard:

    It’s fairly faint. We don’t know its precise orbit yet and we don’t know anything about its chemical composition, we can guess at its size. We don’t know how much light it reflects. If it reflects a lot of light, if it’s very bright, it will be a smaller object. If it’s a darker object and doesn’t reflect much light, it would be much bigger.

  2. Henry Blodget:

    Thankfully, for all of us, I'm not in the stock-market prediction business anymore. I do think the tech industry is in a boom that will end the way all booms do - in a bust, but the magnitude of what's happening today is just a faint echo of what happened in the 1990s.

  3. Joo Alves:

    Finding things close to home is very useful, it means they are not too faint nor too blurred for further detailed exploration, [an] astronomers dream.

  4. Masashi Chiba:

    This discovery implies hundreds of faint dwarf satellites waiting to be discovered in the halo of the Milky Way, how many satellites are indeed there and what properties they have, will give us an important clue of understanding how the Milky Way formed and how dark matter contributed to it.

  5. Christina Carrega:

    Hours after the investigators were at the facility, they noticed a flimsy-looking wall and a faint smell of marijuana, they couldn’t get to what was behind that wall until another search warrant was executed.

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