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tome (tōm)

noun

  1. Obsolete any volume of a work of several volumes
  2. a book, esp. a large, scholarly or ponderous one

Etymology: Fr < L tomus < Gr tomos, piece cut off, hence part of a book, volume < temnein, to cut: see -tomy

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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