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-ics (iks)

  1. art, science, study mathematics
  2. system hydroponics
  3. activities, practices politics
  4. qualities, properties atmospherics

Etymology: -ic + -s (pl.): used as transl. of Gr -ika (L -ica), neut. pl. of -ikos (L -icus)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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