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| [in ceramics] an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures | |||
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| the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands | |||
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| a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans |