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    1 day ago

    But it’s a good definition if you are, say, putting a thing into each indentation. That’s why the two definitions are different.

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        5 hours ago

        You seem to not be getting that words can have multiple (even if related) meanings. When some science or other discipline takes a common word and defines it really precisely for their purposes, that doesn’t change the definition of the common word for all usages and mandate that all lay people use it only with that discipline’s more precise definition.