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xi

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What does xi mean?

noun

  1. The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.
  2. Either of a pair of hyperons having spin 1/2, which decay into a lambda particle and a pion.
  3. A football (soccer) team of eleven players.
More meanings (8)

noun

  1. A cricket team of eleven players.
  2. Capital Greek letter Ξ (X)
  3. Alternative form of xi, Greek letter Ξ/ξ (X/x)
  4. Alternative form of xi/Ξ, ellipsis of xi baryon.

proper noun

  1. A river in China, the western tributary of the Pearl.
  2. A surname from Chinese
  3. Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–present).
  4. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
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In the work on the Code, Test XI, she found it altogether impossible to keep her mind concentrated.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
The subject of this Essay is intimately connected with those of Essays XI and XII, perhaps the most important of the series.
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743
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For Dante, see in canto xi of the Inferno a revelation of the amazing depth of the hostility to the taking of interest.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
I presume you will wish to see Chapter IV., the key-stone of my arch, and Chapters X. and XI., but please to inform me on this head.
Charles DarwinLife and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2087
Louis XI, always worried about his health, was anxious to have in his library the works of Rhazes.
William, Sir OslerThe Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913Project Gutenberg ebook #1566