On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:32:10PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > My dictionary (American Heritage College Dictionary) sz they're > synonyms. Save your valuable exemption for a real error :) And American Heritage Dictionary also screws up the definition of "hacker," giving it the meaning of "cracker." This should be a clue in this group. Use dict instead, as you can (usually) get multiple sources for the definition (geosynchronous and geostationary being an exception, apparently). All geostationary orbits are also geosynchronous, but not all geosynchronous orbits are geostationary. baloo@ursine:~$ dict geosynchronous 1 definition found From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]: geosynchronous adj : of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth) baloo@ursine:~$ dict geostationary 1 definition found From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]: geostationary adj : of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth; "a geostationary satellite" -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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