| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| taggant |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tag·gant |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  t g  nt |
| NOUN: | Any of various substances, such as microscopic pieces of multilayered colored plastic, added to a product to indicate its source of manufacture: added taggants to explosives to deter terrorism. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Short for Microtaggant, trademark for tags identifying explosives.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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