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AcceleratingAccelerate Ac*cel"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accelerated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Accelerating.] [L. acceleratus, p. p. of
accelerare; ad + celerare to hasten; celer quick. See
Celerity.]
1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add
to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process
of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase
of wealth, etc.
3. To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate
our departure.
Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually
increasing velocity.
Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated
motion. --Nichol.
Syn: To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward;
advance; further. Accelerating forceAccelerate Ac*cel"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accelerated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Accelerating.] [L. acceleratus, p. p. of
accelerare; ad + celerare to hasten; celer quick. See
Celerity.]
1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add
to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process
of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase
of wealth, etc.
3. To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate
our departure.
Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually
increasing velocity.
Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated
motion. --Nichol.
Syn: To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward;
advance; further. Accelerative
Accelerative Ac*cel"er*a*tive, a.
Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.
--Reid.
Adipoceration
Adipoceration Ad`i*poc`er*a"tion, n.
The act or process of changing into adipocere.
AdulteratingAdulterate A*dul"ter*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Adulterating.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of
adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter
other, properly one who approaches another on account of
unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]
1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a
foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food,
drink, drugs, coin, etc.
The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue
with strange words. --Spectator.
Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate;
sophisticate. Adulteration
Adulteration A*dul`ter*a"tion, n. [L. adulteratio.]
1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp.
of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
The shameless adulteration of the coin. --Prescott.
2. An adulterated state or product.
aerationArterialization Ar*te`ri*al*i*za"tion, n. (Physiol.)
The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood
during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed
and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also a["e]ration and
hematosis. AggenerationAggeneration Ag*gen`er*a"tion, n. [L. aggenerare to beget in
addition. See Generate.]
The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] --T. Stanley. Aggeration
Aggeration Ag`ger*a"tion, n. [L. aggeratio.]
A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]
AgglomeratingAgglomerate Ag*glom"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Agglomerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Agglomerating.] [L.
agglomeratus, p. p. of agglomerare; ad + glomerare to form
into a ball. See Glomerate.]
To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass
or anything like a mass.
Where he builds the agglomerated pile. --Cowper. Agglomerative
Agglomerative Ag*glom"er*a*tive, a.
Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.
Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to
use one of his own words) agglomerative. --Coleridge.
Alterative
Alterative Al"ter*a*tive, n.
A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and
restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
Alternate generationAlternate Al*ter"nate (?; 277), a. [L. alternatus, p. p. of
alternate, fr. alternus. See Altern, Alter.]
1. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in
succession of time or place; by turns first one and then
the other; hence, reciprocal.
And bid alternate passions fall and rise. --Pope.
2. Designating the members in a series, which regularly
intervene between the members of another series, as the
odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every
second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.; read
every alternate line.
3. (Bot.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights
of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular
divergence. --Gray.
Alternate alligation. See Alligation.
Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by
two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the
parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH,
GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate
angles.
Alternate generation. (Biol.) See under Generation. Alternation of generationAlternation Al`ter*na"tion, n. [L. alternatio: cf. F.
alternation.]
1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the
act of following and being followed by turns; alternate
succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the
alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and
winter, hope and fear.
2. (Math.) Permutation.
3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with
the minister. --Mason.
Alternation of generation. See under Generation. Amyloid degenerationAmyloid Am"y*loid, Amyloidal Am`y*loid"al, a. [L. amylum
starch + -oid.]
Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike.
Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of
various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an
albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and
sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous
degeneration. Annumeration
Annumeration An*nu`mer*a"tion, n. [L. annumeratio.]
Addition to a former number. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
AsperatingAsperate As"per*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Asperated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Asperating.] [L. asperatus, p. p. of asperare, fr.
asper rough.]
To make rough or uneven.
The asperated part of its surface. --Boyle. Asperation
Asperation As`per*a"tion, n.
The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. --Bailey.
AsseveratingAsseverate As*sev"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Asseverated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Asseverating.] [L. asseveratus, p. p. of
asseverare to assert seriously or earnestly; ad + severus.
See Severe.]
To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.
Syn: To affirm; aver; protest; declare. See Affirm. Asseveration
Asseveration As*sev`er*a"tion, n. [L. asseveratio.]
The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated;
positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.
Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement
asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. --Ray.
Asseverative
Asseverative As*sev"er*a*tive, a.
Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
Attemperation
Attemperation At*tem`per*a"tion, n.
The act of attempering or regulating. [Archaic] --Bacon.
BeratingBerate Be*rate", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Berated; p. pr. & vb.
n. Berating.]
To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. --Holland. --Motley. Blatteration
Blatteration Blat`ter*a"tion, n. [L. blateratio a babbling.]
Blattering.
Botheration
Botheration Both`er*a"tion, n.
The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of
trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]
Calculus of operationsCalculus Cal"cu*lus, n.; pl. Calculi. [L, calculus. See
Calculate, and Calcule.]
1. (Med.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the
body, but most frequent in the organs that act as
reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as,
biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
2. (Math.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning
by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may
involve calculation.
Barycentric calculus, a method of treating geometry by
defining a point as the center of gravity of certain other
points to which co["e]fficients or weights are ascribed.
Calculus of functions, that branch of mathematics which
treats of the forms of functions that shall satisfy given
conditions.
Calculus of operations, that branch of mathematical logic
that treats of all operations that satisfy given
conditions.
Calculus of probabilities, the science that treats of the
computation of the probabilities of events, or the
application of numbers to chance.
Calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics in which
the laws of dependence which bind the variable quantities
together are themselves subject to change.
Differential calculus, a method of investigating
mathematical questions by using the ratio of certain
indefinitely small quantities called differentials. The
problems are primarily of this form: to find how the
change in some variable quantity alters at each instant
the value of a quantity dependent upon it.
Exponential calculus, that part of algebra which treats of
exponents.
Imaginary calculus, a method of investigating the relations
of real or imaginary quantities by the use of the
imaginary symbols and quantities of algebra.
Integral calculus, a method which in the reverse of the
differential, the primary object of which is to learn from
the known ratio of the indefinitely small changes of two
or more magnitudes, the relation of the magnitudes
themselves, or, in other words, from having the
differential of an algebraic expression to find the
expression itself. Cameration
Cameration Cam`er*a"tion, n. [L. cameratio.]
A vaulting or arching over. [R.]
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