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Definition of Entrant

1. Noun. A commodity that enters competition with established merchandise. "A well publicized entrant is the pocket computer"

2. Noun. Any new participant in some activity.

3. Noun. Someone who enters. "New entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures"

4. Noun. One who enters a competition.

Definition of Entrant

1. n. One who enters; a beginner.

Definition of Entrant

1. Noun. participant ¹

2. Noun. newcomer ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Entrant

1. one that enters [n -S] - See also: enters

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrant

entrance examination entrance examinations entrance fee entrance hall entrance money entrance pupil entranced entranceless entrancement entrancements

entrances entranceway entranceways entrancing entrancingly entrant (current term) entrants entrap entrapment entrapment neuropathy

entrapments entrapped entrapper entrappers entrapping entraps entraunce entre entreat entreatable

Literary usage of Entrant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Hence the probability of a re-entrant quadrilateral is where pi = prob. ... For we have seen that the chance of four points forming a re-entrant ..."

2. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"Death, Absence, etc., of the entrant. [Note 2; add:] In те Fountaine, In re Dowler, ... App. 79, 109 SW 946 (entrant absconded and his whereabouts unknown). ..."

3. Electrical Machine Design: The Design and Specification of Direct and by Alexander Gray (1913)
"Doubly re-entrant duplex winding. FIG. 10.—Singly re-entrant duplex winding. If the winding shown in Fig. 9 be followed round the machine starting at any ..."

4. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"As a general rule, the entrant must have personal knowledge of the ... Upon principle, absolute personal knowledge of the entrant is not essential. ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The wall then formed an angle and then a re-entrant angle (II Esd., iii, 24). but we are ignorant as to the point where it crossed the valley to ascend ..."

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