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Term: Rosetta

Definition 1 (Noun): A type of stone that contains the same piece of writing in three different languages, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic script, and Greek. It was instrumental in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Example Sentence 1: The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799, played a crucial role in understanding the ancient Egyptian writing system.

Definition 2 (Noun): A language learning software program, commonly known as Rosetta Stone, that uses interactive techniques and images to teach different languages.

Example Sentence 2: She decided to learn Spanish using Rosetta Stone software and found it to be incredibly helpful.

Definition 3 (Noun): A space probe, Rosetta, built by the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 2004 to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Example Sentence 3: Rosetta's mission was to collect detailed data about the comet's nucleus and study its composition.

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