enigma

substantivo

1. 1

   Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.

   I was, and still am, an enigma to myself.

   At the heart of all things there is to be found a certain coincidentia oppositorum; and herein, as I have said, lies the key to our problem: the enigma of indeterminism. The astounding fact is that freedom and necessity can coexist;

   Tucked inconspicuously away behind the shoal of darkness that hung in those gloomy corners, the silhouetted enigma was ogling him in halcyon silence.

   But as he came to know this work during his last months, he also came to a profound understanding of the many enigmas that create a deeply satisfying life.

2. 2

   A riddle, or a difficult problem.

   Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy, begin.

   This little story before us is an amplification of that clever enigma, and though essentially a story for children, as its title-page tells us, would beguile many a one much older of a half-hour in the evening.

   Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma.

   Logic sorts the information in an enigma, logic determines that something is odd about this information, and logic draws inferences from an enigma's words; but logic cannot produce ideas.

3. 3

   Riddles and puzzles, collectively.

   From the beginning, readers of The Enigma of Arrival are likely to feel surrounded by enigma and puzzle.

   These examples show that two processes are tested in enigma - logic and intuition. It is intuition that discovers the specific idea that may be called the “ wisdom ” of a given riddle, whereas logic is confounded by enigma and can only produce inadequate interpretations.

   It was her secret, which she shared with no one except Alec Malone. Her husband would not have understood. Invisible wounds were not in his inventory of useful patents. He had even less interest in enigma.

4. 4

   Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.

   In those halcyon days I believed that the source of enigma was stupidity .

   The circumstances under which the band is obtained and the strange story that it tells are wrapped in enigma that challenges the hermeneutic powers of the reader .

   […] a politics of hybridity that led the brothers to that overarching trait of their art: the accumulation of styles, subjects, materials, textualities, all framed in enigma .

   All this will put us in a position to better understand how Heaviside emerged from obscurity only to remain shrouded in enigma.

5. 5

   A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.

   But in a sense it is probably close to this book— a series of juxtaposed splinters of meaning, which perhaps once in ten million times will come out as a piece of interpretable prose, with the black pieces intervening, and possibly one could look at this as a one-in-ten million exercise in enigma perhaps meaning something.

   The interpretive effort elicited by enigma approaches an instant of transcendent understanding that has the force of revelation, yet without ever fully or permanently reaching it.

6. 6

   A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.

   Members of this LIM protein family expressed in muscle include muscle LIM protein (MLP), enigma, actinin-associated LIM protein (ALP), cypher, four and a half LIM-only protein FHL/SLIM, and heart LIM protein (HLP).

   Yeast two-hybrid screening revealed that enigma binds to the insulin receptor (InsR) internalization motif.

   Enigma is a predominantly cytoplasmic protein that contains one PDZ domain at its N terminus and three LIM domains at its C terminus.

7. 7

   The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.

   As noted by Fry (1980), if both forms were shown to be resident and breeding on Talaud, enigma must be accorded specific status.

   No conclusive proof of breeding by enigma was obtained, but during late September and October 1995, birds were paired and holding territory in central Karakelang.

   The Talaud population enigma may be a race of H. chloris ( Eck 1978 ) or a distinct species ( White & Bruce 1986 ).

8. 8

   Any member of the species Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.

   The principal species involved were the migratory grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes (Fab.); the Packard grasshopper, Melanoplus packardii Scudd.; the clearwinged grasshopper, Camnula pellucida (Scudd.); and the Enigma Oedaleonotus enigma Scudd.

9. 9

   Any member of the species Heliothis enigma of rare moths.

   Unlike any other species except virescens , the base of the male valve in enigma is slightly expanded and is entirely covered by hair insertions; unlike virescens, the base of the valve is not expanded into a large corema.

10. 10

    Variante de EnigmaAlternative letter-case form of Enigma.

    This U-boat consistently used Norddeich or Kootwijk frequencies for her shadowing reports, all of which were in enigma.

    Because of the danger of intercept, transmissions by a submarine are minimized and are coded by enigma.

    Everybody knows enigma was the code the Germans used back in World War Two. There was a movie about the Brit guy who broke it.

Formas

plural

enigmas, enigmata