albatross vs brittleness

albatross

noun
  • A long-term impediment, burden, or curse. 

  • A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole. 

  • Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings. 

  • Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins. 

brittleness

noun
  • The state of being brittle; aptness to break; fragility. 

  • The property by virtue of which a material is fractured without appreciable deformation by the application of load. 

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