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Noun:

  • anatomy The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
  • cartography an arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  • in plural ancestry
  • mathematics The axes of a coordinate system intersect
  • The beginning of something.
  • The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

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