datacentric terms from WebOnt

[Ed Shaya]

Here are 1094 terms from WordNet with definitions and synonyms and 
narrower terms.  It started as an 8000 word subset that is apparently 
for datacentric terms ie quantifiable numerically or as enumerated 
sets.  It was prearranged according to topic, so I kept in astronomy, 
math, units, physics, geometry and some geophysical terms and deleted 
chemistry, medicine, psychological, and semantic terms.  I also did edit 
some of the definitions a touch,  mostly to remove example sentences 
that I thought detracted from the definitions.

Each word is followed by a number which indicates which homonym in 
Wordnet is meant here. The definition comes after the "|".  So, this is 
nice to have definitions present although they are not the best one 
could do.  These terms and their definitions are at the level of what 
you need to read an science article in a major newspaper or something 
like it. 
Most of these words are useful for science in general.  Words that are 
strictly for astronomy usually have "(astronomy)" in the defintion.
Sometimes this list has more than one homonym.  EG

day 0 twenty-four_hours 0 twenty-four_hour_period 0 -hour_interval 0 
solar_day 0 mean_solar_day 0   | time for Earth to make a complete 
rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two 
performances every day"; "there are , passengers per day" 
day 7    | the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) 
to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day on Jupiter?"

second 0 | 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the 
Systeme International d'Unites
second 1 | following the first in an ordering or series; "he came in a 
close second" 


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