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- A blind alley or dead end street.
- (US): A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on street, with little or no through-traffic.
- An impasse.
quotations:
*"Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them." — National Review, February 14, 2005
- (medicine) A sacklike cavity or tube open at one end only.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
||Cul`-de-sac" (ku`de-s?k" or kul`de-s?k"),
n.; pl. Culs-de-sac
(ku`- or kulz`-). [ F., lit., bottom of a bag.]
1. A passage with only one outlet, as a
street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.
2. (Mil.) a position in which an
army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front.
3. (Anat.) Any bag-shaped or
tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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