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Established beyond doubt or question; indisputable. 5. Etymology: used from about 1297, "determined, fixed", from Old French certain, from Vulgar Latin certanus, from Latin certus, "sure, fixed"; originally a variant of cernere, "to distinguish, to decide"; originally "to sift, to separate".
29 paź 2017 · cert. colloquial abbreviation of certainty, attested by 1889 (in dead cert). Cert (adv.) "forsooth, indeed," was in Middle English, from Old French, from Latin certo, certe, but it became obsolete or dialectal. also from 1889.
The acronym CERN originally represented the French words for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire ('European Council for Nuclear Research'), which was a provisional council for building the laboratory, established by 12 European governments in 1952.
1 paź 2024 · CERN, international scientific organization established for the purpose of collaborative research into high-energy particle physics. Founded in 1954, the organization maintains its headquarters near Geneva and operates expressly for research of a “pure scientific and fundamental character.”
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The earliest known use of the verb cern is in the 1880s. OED's only evidence for cern is from 1880, in a translation by James Muirhead, jurist. cern is a borrowing from Latin .
