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endpiece

That part at either end of a spectacle frame front which contains the pivot for the sides. Syn. lug.
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While editing The Sunday Times Magazine, he launched the endpiece item, A Life in the Day - still going strong more than 30 years later.
biography: A Hunter's instinct for a good story; Peter Elson meets the humorist and biographer who has brought us intimate portraits of the icons of our age
Spermatozoa of the hagfish, a member of one of the most primitive vertebrate groups, consist of a head (acrosomal and nuclear regions), a midpiece, and an endpiece (Jespersen, 1975; Morisawa, 1995).
Spermiogenesis in the hagfish Eptatretus burgeri (Agnatha)
In Endpiece, one of the main buildings is in ruins, and the blue colour emphasises the sadness over the passing of a name known globally in the dyestuffs industry, the loss of jobs, and the dereliction of the site (now being brought to new life as a trading estate).
Exhibition in a very appropriate place
While it's hard to agree with Harris' rather gloomy assessment of the current state of British music, which appears as an endpiece to this paperback version, The Last Party remains a gripping, entertaining and thought-provoking read.
Days of Blair and Britpop
Freeman concentrates on the Queen's own reign and the half-century following (though with an interesting endpiece by Tom Betteridge on cinematic representations of the Queen).
The Myth of Elizabeth
Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, it has contracted by half its size and lost three-quarters of its volume since the 1960s, when its two feeder rivers--the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya--were diverted to irrigate cotton fields and rice paddies (see Endpiece, page 40).
A human thirst: humans now appropriate more than half of all the freshwater in the world. Rising demands from agriculture, industry, and a growing population have left important habitats around the world high and dry
There is no index, but a folding map is included as an endpiece.
Discovery & Settlement of Port Phillip, being a History of the Country now called Victoria up to the arrival of Mr Superintendent La Trobe, in October, 1839

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