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Part of Speech: conjunction
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Part of Speech: noun
1.
This word is properly an
adjective,
but is commonly
called the indefinite article.
It is used before nouns
of the singular number only,
and signifies
one,
or any,
but somewhat
less emphatically.
In such expressions
as " twice an
hour," "
once an
age," a
shilling an
ounce (
see 2d A, 2),
it has a
distributive force,
and is equivalent to each,
every.
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