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| Listed below are all of the What's the Word segments so far
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| | The links below lead to the episodes with WTW segments. Titles shown in ''italics'' link straight to What's the Word? segments, with the episode number given in parentheses. |
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| {{tick}} means transcription is complete and proofread. <br> {{mag}} means it has been transcribed, but not proofread. <br> {{Open}} means no transcription is available yet. <br>
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| *[[SGU Episode_617#What.27s_the_Word_.284:04.29|Exaptation (617)]] {{mag}} – ''An organ that has a function that is not what it was originally evolved for''
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| *[[SGU Episode_605#What.27s_the_Word_.2811:50.29|Impedance (605)]] {{mag}} – ''The effective resistance of an electric circuit to alternating current''
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| *[[SGU Episode_601#What.27s_the_Word_.281:14.29|Parallax (601)]] {{mag}} – ''Apparent movement against a background as an observer moves''
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| *[[SGU Episode_597#What.27s_the_Word_.2845:58.29|In Situ (597)]] {{mag}} – ''Being in its original position or place''
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| *[[SGU Episode_596#What.27s_the_Word_.289:58.29|Phylogenetic (596)]] {{mag}} – ''The evolutionary history of a species''
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| *[[SGU Episode_595#What.27s_The_Word_.2858:54.29|Endemic (595)]] {{mag}} – ''Restricted to a particular region''
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| *[[SGU Episode_594#What.27s_the_Word_.284:42.29|Autopoiesis(594)]] {{mag}} – ''A system that is self-regulating ''
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| *[[SGU Episode_594#What.27s_the_Word_.284:42.29|Autological (594)]] {{mag}} – ''A word that describes itself''
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| *[[SGU Episode_592#What.27s_the_Word_.281:55.29|Xerophile (592)]] {{mag}} – ''An organism that thrives in dry environments''
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| *[[SGU Episode_591#What.27s_the_Word_.288:35.29|Relict (591)]] {{mag}} – ''Something that has survived from an earlier period of time''
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| *[[SGU Episode_589#What.27s_the_Word_.281:02:45.29|Taphonomy (589)]] {{mag}} – ''The study of fossilization''
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| *[[SGU Episode_588#What.27s_the_Word_.287:59.29|Autophagy (588)]] {{mag}} – ''The self-digestion of a cell's organelles''
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| *[[SGU Episode_587#What.27s_the_Word_.2858:29.29|Ultracrepidarian (587)]] {{mag}} – ''One who expresses opinions outside their area of expertise''
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| *[[SGU Episode_586#What.27s_the_Word_.2816:18.29|Apophenia (586)]] {{mag}} – ''Perceiving a connection between random things''
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| *[[SGU Episode_585#What.27s_the_Word_.2857:10.29|Superfecundation (585)]] {{mag}} – ''Successive fertilization of multiple ova from the same ovulation''
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| *[[SGU Episode_584#What.27s_the_Word_.281:01:04.29|Comorbidity (584)]] {{mag}} – ''Multiple simultaneous diagnoses''
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| *[[SGU Episode_583#What.27s_the_Word_.2847:01.29|Thanatosis (583)]] {{mag}} – ''When an animal plays dead''
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| *[[SGU Episode_582#What.27s_the_Word_.2845:41.29|Glycolysis (582)]] {{mag}} – ''The metabolic pathway that breaks down glucose''
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| *[[SGU Episode_581#What.27s_the_Word_.283:32.29|Inquiline (581)]] {{mag}} – ''An animal that exploits the living space of another species''
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| *[[SGU Episode_580#What.27s_the_Word_.2846:41.29|Flocculation (580)]] {{mag}} – ''The production of fluffy masses from a colloidal suspension''
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| *[[SGU Episode_579#What.27s_the_Word:_Hypnagogia_.289:00.29|Hypnagogia (579)]] {{mag}} – ''The state of drowsiness that immediately preceeds sleep''
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| *[[SGU Episode_578#What.27s_the_Word:_Mondegreen_.2841:20.29|Mondegreen (578)]] {{mag}} – ''Word / phrase resulting from a mishearing of something that was said or sung''
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| *[[SGU Episode_577#What.27s_the_Word_.282:04.29|Neoteny (577)]] {{mag}} – ''Retention of juvenile characteristics in adult individuals of a species''
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| *[[SGU Episode_576#What.27s_the_Word_.2847:28.29|Estivation (576)]] {{mag}} – ''Entering a dormant state when in a hot, dry environment''
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| *[[SGU Episode_575#What.27s_the_Word_.289:19.29|Apoptosis (575)]] {{mag}} – ''Programmed cell death''
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| *[[SGU Episode_574#What.27s_the_Word_.2854:56.29|Paroxysmal (574)]] {{mag}} – '' Relating to a sudden fit, or attack during illness''
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| *[[SGU Episode_573#What.27s_the_Word_.281:27.29|Alluvium (573)]] {{mag}} – ''Clay or silt that's deposited by running water''
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| *[[SGU Episode_572#What.27s_the_Word_.2835:20.29|Crepuscular (572)]] {{mag}} – ''Of, relating to, or resembling twilight''
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| *[[SGU Episode_571#What.27s_the_Word_.281:00:39.29|Eschatology (571)]] {{mag}} – ''In theology, the final destiny of the soul, and of mankind''
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| *[[SGU Episode_570#What.27s_the_Word_.282:28.29|Iatrogenic (570)]] {{mag}} – ''An infection or injury produced inadvertently by a physician''
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| *[[SGU Episode_569#What.27s_the_Word_.281:01:41.29|Cauliflory (569)]] {{mag}} – ''Production of flowers or fruits directly from the branches or trunks of plants''
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| *[[SGU Episode_568#What.27s_the_Word_.2814:34.29|Autotomy (568)]] {{mag}} – ''The reflexive separation of an appendage, or other part of the body''
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| *[[SGU Episode_567#What.27s_the_Word_.2825:28.29|Group animal names (589)]] {{mag}} – ''An obstinacy of buffalo, etc''
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| *[[SGU Episode_566#What.27s_the_Word_.281:00:25.29|Amphidromic (566)]] {{mag}} – ''A point where there's almost zero tides''
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| *[[SGU Episode_565#What.27s_the_Word_.284:43.29|Propaganda (565)]] {{mag}} – ''Spreading ideas to promote an institution''
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| *[[SGU Episode_564#What.27s_the_Word_.2839:20.29|Hyperthymesia (564)]] {{mag}} – ''Extremely efficacious autobiographical memory''
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| *[[SGU Episode_563#What.27s_the_Word_.280:25.29|Geodesic (563)]] {{mag}} – ''The shortest distance between two points''
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| *[[SGU Episode_562#What.27s_the_Word_.283:37.29|Homophily (562)]] {{mag}} – ''The theory that people tend to form connections with others who are similar to them''
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| *[[SGU Episode_561#What.27s_the_Word_.283:17.29|Foreign words that lack English equivalents (561)]] {{mag}}
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| *[[SGU Episode_560#What.27s_the_Word_.281:04:05.29|Chemiosmosis (560)]] {{mag}} – ''Turning ADP into ATP in mitochondria''
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| *[[SGU Episode_559#What.27s_the_Word_.284:26.29|Equilux (559)]] {{mag}} – ''The day in which the length of dark and light are equal''
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| *[[SGU Episode_558#What.27s_the_Word_.2840:46.29|Sciolism (558)]] {{mag}} – ''Opinionating on subjects of which one only has superficial knowledge''
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| *[[SGU Episode_557#What.27s_the_Word_.281:15.29|Thixotropy (557)]] {{mag}} – ''A property where shaking a substance thins it out''
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| *[[SGU Episode_553#What.27s_the_Word_.285:00.29|Pleochroism (553)]] {{mag}} – ''The way crystals show different colors when viewed from different directions''
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| *[[SGU Episode_552#What.27s_the_Word_.2851:07.29|Epistasis (552)]] {{mag}} – ''When combined genes have a dominant effect over other combinations''
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| *[[SGU Episode_551#What.27s_the_Word_.281:14.29|Words from science fiction (551)]] {{mag}} – ''Robotics, for example''
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| *[[SGU Episode_550#What.27s_the_Word_.2844:09.29|Agnatology (550)]] {{mag}} – '' The study of willful acts to spread confusion''
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| *[[SGU Episode_549#What.27s_the_Word_.283:21.29|Algorithm (549)]] {{mag}} – ''A set of prescribed rules for solving a problem''
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| *[[SGU Episode_548#What.27s_the_Word_.2841:55.29|Fugacity (548)]] {{mag}} – '' The pressure of a hypothetical ideal gas that would correspond to the real gas as it exists at a given temperature, pressure, and composition.''
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| *[[SGU Episode_547#What.27s_the_Word_.2858:23.29|Obligate (547)]] {{mag}} – ''A creature that is restricted to one characteristic mode of life''
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| *[[SGU Episode_544#What.27s_The_Word_.2844:25.29|Consilience (544)]] {{mag}} – '' Linking together principles from different disciplines to form a theory''
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| *[[SGU Episode_543#What.27s_the_Word_.284:28.29|Hysteresis (543)]] {{mag}} – ''The lag in a variable property of a system with respect to the effect producing it as this effect varies''
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| *[[SGU Episode_542#What.27s_the_Word_.282:09.29|Homeostasis (542)]] {{mag}} – ''The maintenance of internal stability in a system or organism''
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| *[[SGU Episode_541#What.27s_the_Word_.2847:16.29|Albedo (541)]] {{mag}} – ''The intensity of light that's reflected from an object''
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| *[[SGU Episode_540#What.27s_the_Word_.283:02.29|Formication (540)]] {{mag}} – ''The feeling that insects are crawling all over your skin''
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| *[[SGU Episode_539#What.27s_the_Word_.2858:41.29|Indolent (539)]] {{mag}} – ''Causing little or no pain, inactive, or relatively benign''
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| *[[SGU Episode_538#What.27s_the_Word_.2839:51.29|Canonical (538)]] {{mag}} – ''According to recognized rules or scientific laws''
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| *[[SGU Episode_534#What.27s_the_Word_.2850:21.29|Isograd (534)]] {{mag}} – ''A line connecting points on the Earth where metamorphism of rocks occurred under the same conditions''
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| *[[SGU Episode_533#What.27s_the_Word_.2849:26.29|Efferent (533)]] {{mag}} – ''A body part that projects outward''
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| *[[SGU Episode_532#What.27s_the_Word_.2850:59.29|Anosmia (532)]] {{mag}} – ''The loss of the sense of smell''
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| *[[SGU Episode_531#What.27s_the_Word_.2859:44.29|Stochastic (531)]] {{mag}} – ''A process that is a random in the particulars, but is statistical in the aggregate
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| == Trivia ==
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| * The longest What's the Word segment was 9 minutes and 55 seconds long, in episode 543
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| * The shortest was a tie at 1 minute and 50 seconds in episodes 534 and 558
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