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 | | According to the law of conservation of energy, such perpetual motion is impossible, and no device has yet been built that is capable of perpetual motion. |
 | | This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle. |
 | | It is used for an, for the sake of euphony, before words beginning with a consonant sound [for exception of certain words beginning with h, see {An}]; as, a table, a woman, a year, a unit, a eulogy, a ewe, a oneness, such a one, etc. Formally an was used both before vowels and consonants. |
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