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• MS 8725.98 Lexical Fossilization

  Lexical Fossilization is the process by which a catalogued word, term, or designation hardens into an unalterable form and thereafter resists revision…

• MS 3036.69 Heptatic Loom

  The Heptatic Loom is an instrument of restricted circulation, registered with the Office of the Archivist under instrument class 7-Sigma and held in t…

• MS 0741.46 Floor 451 (the Spire of Resolutions)

  The Spire of Resolutions is the name borne by Floor 451 of the Tower, a composite research and drafting gallery dedicated to the preparation, revision…

• MS 3411.87 Absorptive Growth

  Absorptive Growth is the accretion of catalogued matter onto an entity already classified under Type A, occurring without the entity's transition into…

• MS 9198.78 Eastern Stair, Gamma Corridor

  The Eastern Stair, Gamma Corridor is the principal horizontal thoroughfare of the eastern ascent, running between the Gamma landing at its western hea…

• MS 6929.68 Eastern

  Eastern is the operative and jurisdictional designation applied throughout the Tower to those floors, corridors, conduits, and practices whose orienta…

• MS 7354.36 Draft-Trace Analysis

  Draft-Trace Analysis is a branch of Precedential Analysis concerned with the identification, classification, and disposition of residual traces left b…

• MS 1562.90 Department of Confluence Analysis

  The Department of Confluence Analysis is the body charged with the identification, classification, and adjudication of intangible confluences — those …

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• 26 cites Second Recension
• 24 cites Office of Recensions
• 22 cites Fourth Recension
• 20 cites Concordance 61
• 19 cites Ninth Recension
• 15 cites Cartographer-Surveyor Guild
• 15 cites Concordance III
• 14 cites Doctrine of Coincidental Authority