noun
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A measure of the scarcity of an object.
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(of a gas) Thinness; the property of having low density
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A rare object.
Examples of rarities in a Sentence
Britain has always had great rarities in its flora, such as the lady's slipper orchid.
There is a large feeding area which attracts many birds, including some rarities.
Once, farmhouse ice-cream, home-cured bacon and British goat's cheese would have been rarities; now the internet is awash with them.
The 15-track rarities disk includes alternative versions and live recordings of album tracks as well as unreleased demos.
This can be a good place for rarities and is always worth checking (I've seen Blue-winged teal and Great Northern Diver ).
On the other hand, it offers rarities such as Scott Joplin's The Entertainer arranged for solo tuba.
I also found two island rarities and managed to catch up with all the known vagrants present on the island.
Rarities included one very elusive Melodious Warbler still around the Obs, and new wrynecks at Southwell and Easton.
Wildwoods have recently taken delivery of yet another shipment of fish containing some real rarities.
I will be sending a description of this bird to the Australian rarities committee.
This, the third release in our rarities collection is a first time on CD re-issue of the 1981 collection Perspectives and Distortion.
This can be a good place for rarities and is always worth checking (I 've seen Blue-winged teal and Great Northern Diver).
On the other hand, it offers rarities such as Scott Joplin 's The Entertainer arranged for solo tuba.
Rarities included one very elusive Melodious Warbler still around the Obs, and new Wrynecks at Southwell and Easton.
Nelson Rarities specializes in antique engagement rings and has a special category for cushion cut diamonds.
You can find classics, rarities, educational films and documentaries.
Mostly, they want to encourage the viewing and sharing of rarities and oddities and the growth of the appreciation of classic film.
His latest release, the 2006 album Noise Floor, collects Bright Eyes rarities and B-sides and was a hit with Bright Eyes completists and new fans alike.
Molluscs are extraordinarily numerous; and many, both of water and land, are rarities among their kind for size and richness of colour.
But there are records of expeditions sent out by the king to obtain the rarities of different countries, and the hero of the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor was upon this quest.
It included remarkable incunabula, 16th-century literature, and scientific literature; and among its special collections are Lord Macaulay's library of British Parliamentary papers, a great collection of English Commonwealth pamphlets, one on the history of Mexico, and other rarities.
The rarities that make up the rest of the disk are also sheer delight.
The entire coastline is good for sea watching and also highly attractive to migrating passerines with many rarities recorded.
Of course, you may come across the occasional spring or summer day dress lightly embellished with beads, but these are rarities.
Absolutely colourless stones are not so common as cloudy and faintly coloured specimens; the usual tints are grey, brown, yellow or white; and as rarities, red, green, blue and black stones have been found.
The Nile valley afforded a passage by ship or on foot into Nubia, where, however, little wealth was to be sought, though gold and rarities from the Sudan, such as ivory and ebony, came that way and an armed raid could yield a good spoil in slaves and cattle.