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Meaning Of Recess
n.
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
n.
The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
n.
Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
n.
Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
n.
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
n.
Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
n.
A sinus.
v. t.
To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
n.
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
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