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greeks

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An inhabitant, resident, or person of descent from Greece.

Examples :

"Many Greeks enjoy spending time at the beach during the summer. "

nation person group

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Examples :

""To me, all the advanced calculus they were discussing sounded like pure Greeks." "

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A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are characterised by being named after Greek letters. (See also Greek system.)

Examples :

"Was Joe a Greek in college?"

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A cunning rogue; a merry fellow.

Examples :

""The kids next door are greeks; they're always playing pranks but they're good fun." "

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Greek cuisine; traditional Greek food.

Examples :

"We ordered greeks for dinner tonight, and it included souvlaki, gyros, and a delicious Greek salad. "

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(chiefly in the plural) One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.

Examples :

"To manage the risk of our options portfolio, we need to carefully monitor the Greeks daily, especially delta and gamma. "

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verb

To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.

Examples :

"The website developer decided to greek the fine print in the terms and conditions to improve the page loading speed, as no one would be able to read it anyway. "

computing technology

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To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.

Examples :

"The designer decided to greek the newsletter template with placeholder text before sending it to the client, so they could focus solely on the layout. "

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