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Alliciency
Alliciency Al*li"cien*cy, n.
Attractive power; attractiveness. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
Coefficiency
Coefficiency Co`ef*fi"cien*cy, n.
Joint efficiency; co["o]peration. --Glanvill.
Comparative sciencesComparative Com*par"a*tive, a. [L. comparativus: cf. F.
comparatif.]
1. Of or pertaining to comparison. ``The comparative
faculty.' --Glanvill.
2. Proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison; as, the
comparative sciences; the comparative anatomy.
3. Estimated by comparison; relative; not positive or
absolute, as compared with another thing or state.
The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold.
--Whewell.
The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to
the fluid that incloses it, would necessarily ascend
to the top. --Bentley.
4. (Gram.) Expressing a degree greater or less than the
positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or
adverb. The comparative degree is formed from the positive
by the use of -er, more, or less; as, brighter, more
bright, or less bright.
Comparative sciences, those which are based on a
comprehensive comparison of the range of objects or facts
in any branch or department, and which aim to study out
and treat of the fundamental laws or systems of relation
pervading them; as, comparative anatomy, comparative
physiology, comparative philology. Concrete scienceConcrete Con"crete (? or ?), a. [L. concretus, p. p. of
concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F.
concret. See Crescent.]
1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate
particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of
the chaos must be of the same figure as the last
liquid state. --Bp. Burnet.
2. (Logic)
(a) Standing for an object as it exists in nature,
invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from
standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to
abstract. Hence:
(b) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; --
opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.
Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of
individuals are concrete, those of classes
abstract. --J. S. Mill.
Concrete terms, while they express the quality,
do also express, or imply, or refer to, some
subject to which it belongs. --I. Watts.
Concrete number, a number associated with, or applied to, a
particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as
distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without
reference to a particular object.
Concrete quantity, a physical object or a collection of
such objects. --Davies & Peck.
Concrete science, a physical science, one having as its
subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract
laws.
Concrete sound or movement of the voice, one which slides
continuously up or down, as distinguished from a
discrete movement, in which the voice leaps at once from
one line of pitch to another. --Rush. Conscienced
Conscienced Con"scienced, a.
Having a conscience. [R.] ``Soft-conscienced men.' --Shak.
Conscienceless
Conscienceless Con"science*less, a.
Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous.
Conscienceless and wicked patrons. --Hookre.
DeficienceDeficience De*fi"cience, n.
Same as Deficiency.
Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee Is no
deficience found. --Milton. DeficienciesDeficiency De*fi"cien*cy, n.; pl. Deficiencies. [See
Deficient.]
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure;
imperfection; shortcoming; defect. ``A deficiency of blood.'
--Arbuthnot.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries. --Buckle.
Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the
number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum
for curves of the same degree. DeficiencyDeficiency De*fi"cien*cy, n.; pl. Deficiencies. [See
Deficient.]
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure;
imperfection; shortcoming; defect. ``A deficiency of blood.'
--Arbuthnot.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries. --Buckle.
Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the
number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum
for curves of the same degree. Deficiency of a curveDeficiency De*fi"cien*cy, n.; pl. Deficiencies. [See
Deficient.]
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure;
imperfection; shortcoming; defect. ``A deficiency of blood.'
--Arbuthnot.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries. --Buckle.
Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the
number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum
for curves of the same degree. DespiciencyDespiciency Des*pi"cien*cy, n. [L. despicientia. See
Despise.]
A looking down; despection. [Obs.] EfficienceEfficience Ef*fi"cience, Efficiency Ef*fi"cien*cy, n. [L.
efficientia.]
1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or
effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
The manner of this divine efficiency being far above
us. --Hooker.
2. (Mech.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended.
--Rankine.
Efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done an
engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it. EfficiencyEfficience Ef*fi"cience, Efficiency Ef*fi"cien*cy, n. [L.
efficientia.]
1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or
effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
The manner of this divine efficiency being far above
us. --Hooker.
2. (Mech.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended.
--Rankine.
Efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done an
engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it. Efficiency of a heat engineEfficience Ef*fi"cience, Efficiency Ef*fi"cien*cy, n. [L.
efficientia.]
1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or
effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
The manner of this divine efficiency being far above
us. --Hooker.
2. (Mech.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended.
--Rankine.
Efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done an
engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it. Improficience
Improficience Im`pro*fi"cience, Improficiency
Im`pro*fi"cien*cy, n.
Want of proficiency. [R.] --Bacon.
Improficiency
Improficience Im`pro*fi"cience, Improficiency
Im`pro*fi"cien*cy, n.
Want of proficiency. [R.] --Bacon.
Indeficiency
Indeficiency In`de*fi"cien*cy, n.
The state or quality of not being deficient. [Obs.] --Strype.
Inductive sciencesInductive In*duct"ive, a. [LL. inductivus: cf. F. inductif.
See Induce.]
1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually
followed by to.
A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.
--Milton.
2. Tending to induce or cause. [R.]
They may be . . . inductive of credibility. --Sir M.
Hale.
3. Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or
using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.
4. (Physics)
(a) Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical
machine.
(b) Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted
upon by induction; as certain substances have a great
inductive capacity.
Inductive embarrassment (Physics), the retardation in
signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral
induction.
Inductive philosophy or method. See Philosophical
induction, under Induction.
Inductive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and
employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany,
chemistry, etc. Inefficiency
Inefficiency In`ef*fi"cien*cy, n.
The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy
sufficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the
desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged
from his position for inefficiency.
Inscience
Inscience In"science, n. [L. inscientia: cf.F. inscience.]
Want of knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.]
Insufficience
Insufficience In`suf*fi"cience, n.
Insufficiency. --Shak.
InsufficiencyInsufficiency In`suf*fi"cien*cy, n. [L. insufficientia: cf. F.
insuffisance, whence OE. insuffisance. See Insufficient.]
1. The quality or state of being insufficient; want of
sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the
insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.
The insufficiency of the light of nature is, by the
light of Scripture, . . . fully supplied. --Hooker.
2. Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity;
incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an
office. MaleficienceMaleficience Mal`e*fi"cience, n. [See Maleficence.]
The doing of evil, harm, or mischief. Natural science 10. (Mus.)
(a) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human
throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(b) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat
nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
(c) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which
moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but
little from the original key. --Moore (Encyc. of
Music).
Natural day, the space of twenty-four hours. --Chaucer.
Natural fats, Natural gas, etc. See under Fat, Gas.
etc.
Natural Harmony (Mus.), the harmony of the triad or common
chord.
Natural history, in its broadest sense, a history or
description of nature as a whole, incuding the sciences of
botany, zo["o]logy, geology, mineralogy,
paleontology, chemistry, and physics. In recent
usage the term is often restricted to the sciences of
botany and zo["o]logy collectively, and sometimes to the
science of zoology alone.
Natural law, that instinctive sense of justice and of right
and wrong, which is native in mankind, as distinguished
from specifically revealed divine law, and formulated
human law.
Natural modulation (Mus.), transition from one key to its
relative keys.
Natural order. (Nat. Hist.) See under order.
Natural person. (Law) See under person, n.
Natural philosophy, originally, the study of nature in
general; in modern usage, that branch of physical science,
commonly called physics, which treats of the phenomena
and laws of matter and considers those effects only which
are unaccompanied by any change of a chemical nature; --
contrasted with mental and moral philosophy.
Natural scale (Mus.), a scale which is written without
flats or sharps. Model would be a preferable term, as less
likely to mislead, the so-called artificial scales (scales
represented by the use of flats and sharps) being equally
natural with the so-called natural scale
Natural science, natural history, in its broadest sense; --
used especially in contradistinction to mental or moral
science.
Natural selection (Biol.), a supposed operation of natural
laws analogous, in its operation and results, to designed
selection in breeding plants and animals, and resulting in
the survival of the fittest. The theory of natural
selection supposes that this has been brought about mainly
by gradual changes of environment which have led to
corresponding changes of structure, and that those forms
which have become so modified as to be best adapted to the
changed environment have tended to survive and leave
similarly adapted descendants, while those less perfectly
adapted have tended to die out though lack of fitness for
the environment, thus resulting in the survival of the
fittest. See Darwinism.
Natural system (Bot. & Zo["o]l.), a classification based
upon real affinities, as shown in the structure of all
parts of the organisms, and by their embryology.
It should be borne in mind that the natural system
of botany is natural only in the constitution of its
genera, tribes, orders, etc., and in its grand
divisions. --Gray.
Natural theology, or Natural religion, that part of
theological science which treats of those evidences of the
existence and attributes of the Supreme Being which are
exhibited in nature; -- distinguished from revealed
religion. See Quotation under Natural, a., 3.
Natural vowel, the vowel sound heard in urn, furl, sir,
her, etc.; -- so called as being uttered in the easiest
open position of the mouth organs. See Neutral vowel,
under Neutral and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 17.
Syn: See Native. Nescience
Nescience Nes"cience, n. [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p. pr.
of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.]
Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.
God fetched it about for me, in that absence and
nescience of mine. --Bp. Hall.
Nonproficiency
Nonproficiency Non`pro*fi"cien*cy, n.
Want of proficiency; failure to make progress.
Occult sciencesOccult Oc*cult", a. [L. occultus, p. p. of occulere to cover
up, hide; ob (see Ob-) + a root prob.akin to E. hell: cf.
F. occulte.]
Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret;
concealed; unknown.
It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its
advances as to escape observation. --I. Taylor.
Occult line (Geom.), a line drawn as a part of the
construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in
the finished plan.
Occult qualities, those qualities whose effects only were
observed, but the nature and relations of whose productive
agencies were undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen.
Occult sciences, those sciences of the Middle Ages which
related to the supposed action or influence of occult
qualities, or supernatural powers, as alchemy, magic,
necromancy, and astrology. Omniscience
Omniscience Om*nis"cience, n. [Cf. F. omniscience.]
The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute
peculiar to God. --Dryden.
Omnisciency
Omnisciency Om*nis"cien*cy, n.
Omniscience.
PerspiciencePerspicience Per*spi"cience, n. [L. perspicientia, fr.
perspiciens, p. p. of perspicere. See Perspective.]
The act of looking sharply. [Obs.] --Bailey.
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