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prills

prills is the plural of prill.

Meaning of prill

Noun (1)

prill (plural prills)

  1. a rill, a small stream
    • Each silver Prill gliding on golden Sand1603, John Davies, Microcosmos
  2. (obsolete) a spinning top

Noun (2)

prill (plural prills)

  1. a pellet, a granule, a small bead
    • Prills are free-flowing pellets developed for fertilizer as a coarse product with little setting tendency that can be spread easily and smoothly.2000, R. R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries, page 275
  2. rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
  3. A nugget of virgin metal.
  4. The button of metal from an assay.

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Proper noun capitalized: Prills

Prills

  1. (plural) plural of Prill

Questions about prills

What is prills the plural of?
Prills is the plural of prill.
What part of speech is prills?
Prills is a proper noun.

Words near prills in the dictionary

  1. prilled
  2. prilling
  3. prilling tower
  4. prilling towers
  5. prillion
  6. prills
  7. prilocaine
  8. prim
  9. prim and proper
  10. Prim's algorithm
  11. Prim-Dijkstra algorithm

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