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  • 1fortune — [ fɔrtyn ] n. f. • XIIe; lat. fortuna « bonne ou mauvaise fortune » I ♦ 1 ♦ Vx ou littér. Puissance qui est censée distribuer le bonheur et le malheur sans règle apparente. ⇒ hasard, sort. Les caprices de la fortune. Être favorisé par la fortune …

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  • 2fortuné — fortune [ fɔrtyn ] n. f. • XIIe; lat. fortuna « bonne ou mauvaise fortune » I ♦ 1 ♦ Vx ou littér. Puissance qui est censée distribuer le bonheur et le malheur sans règle apparente. ⇒ hasard, sort. Les caprices de la fortune. Être favorisé par la… …

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  • 3fortune — Fortune. s. f. Cas fortuit, Hazard. Bonne fortune. mauvaise fortune. en cas de fortune. je me rencontray là par bonne fortune pour moy. s il arrivoit par fortune que. il donne tout à la fortune. les accidents de la fortune. Il se prend… …

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  • 4Fortune (Unix) — fortune is a simple program that displays a random message from a database of quotations. Most distributions of fortune are bundled with a collection of themed files, containing sayings like those found on fortune cookies (hence the name),… …

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  • 5fortune — for‧tune [ˈfɔːtʆn ǁ ˈfɔːr ] noun [countable] 1. a very large amount of money: • Working on the Stock Exchange, he made a fortune in just a few years. • It would cost a fortune to treat all the waste. • Producers pay stars as much as $5,000 per… …

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  • 6Change (band) — Change Origin Bologna, Italy New York, USA Genres R B, post disco, boogie Years active 1979–1986 Labels Atlantic Records, Goody Music Records …

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  • 7Change — (ch[=a]nj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Changed} (ch[=a]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Changing}.] [F. changer, fr. LL. cambiare, to exchange, barter, L. cambire. Cf. {Cambial}.] 1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to …

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  • 8change — vb Change, alter, vary, modify (and their corresponding nouns change, alteration, variation, modification) are comparable when denoting to make or become different (or when denoting a difference effected). Change and alter are sometimes… …

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  • 9Fortune's algorithm — is a plane sweep algorithm for generating a Voronoi diagram from a set of points in a plane using O( n log n ) time and O( n ) space. [cite book|author = Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, Mark Overmars, and Otfried Schwarzkopf | year = 2000 | title …

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  • 10fortune — noun 1 luck ADJECTIVE ▪ good ▪ bad, ill … OF FORTUNE ▪ piece, stroke ▪ By a stroke of good fortune, S …

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