homo

plural homos

1. abbreviationclippingcolloquialderogatoryoftenClipping of homosexual.

   I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet.

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   "... He's a homo." "My dear Theo, at my age one can't worry about little details like that. Besides, he's got such a nice voice."

   1938, Cecil Day Lewis, Starting point, page 127

comparative more homo · superlative most homo

1. colloquialderogatorysometimesOf or pertaining to homosexuality.

plural homos

1. CanadaUScountabledateduncountableHomogenized milk with a high butterfat content.

   One quart of homo wholesale in glass equals one quart equivalent. Certain modifications were made in these relatives to adjust for variations in units per ...

   1956, Purdue University. Agricultural Experiment Station., Station bulletin, page 25

1. CanadaUSnot comparableHomogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.

   Regular homo milk was being sold out of stores in half gallons for 33 cents against 44 cents on regular homo milk on home delivery.

   1958, American milk review and milk plant monthly, volume 20, page 190

plural homos

1. nonstandardA human.

   John, John, if you don't go you're no homo—no! You're only a fowl, an owl, a cow, a sow,—a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog.

   1849, Edgar Allan Poe, X-ing a Paragrab, published 1850

1. abbreviationacronymchemistryAcronym of highest occupied molecular orbital.

   To be consistent with the terminology for solids, for molecules, we also call the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) the VBM and CBM, respectively.

   2016 April 26, Jie Ma, Lin-Wang Wang, “Using Wannier functions to improve solid band gap predictions in density functional theory”, in Scientific Reports, volume 6, →DOI, article 24924, page 2