hermetic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /hə(ɹ)ˈmɛtɪk/
hermetic
- (chiefly with capital initial) Pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus or the writings attributed to him.
- Pertaining to alchemy or occult practices; magical, alchemical.
- Hermetically sealed.
- Isolated, away from outside influence.
- 2013, Martin S. Alexander, "Fighting to the last Frenchman", in Joel Blatt (ed), The French Defeat Of 1940: Reassessments, page 325, ISBN 0857457179.
- Increasingly isolated in the military's hermetic world, as winter stretched endlessly onward, Gamelin was finally overcome by an insidious complacency in the adequacy of his fellow generals, their British counterparts and his own troops.
- 2011, Vivian Sobchack, "When the ear dreams", in Jacques Khalip and Robert Mitchell (eds), Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media, page 130, ISBN 0804779112.
- Thus, in concert with the privatization, intensification, and amplification of digitized sound, the digitized imagery renders not only the immensity, intimacy, and heightened detail of reverie but also the surrounding vagueness of its internalized and hermetic space.
- 2013, Martin S. Alexander, "Fighting to the last Frenchman", in Joel Blatt (ed), The French Defeat Of 1940: Reassessments, page 325, ISBN 0857457179.
- French: hermétique
- French: hermétique
- French: hermétique
- German: hermetisch
- French: hermétique
- German: hermetisch
- Russian: гермети́чный
- Spanish: hermético
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