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neat
An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
"My room is neat because I tidied it this morning. She has very neat hair."
Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
"I like my whisky neat."
Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
"The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat. The molecular beam was neat acetylene."
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