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Angular distanceAngular An"gu*lar, a. [L. angularis, fr. angulus angle,
corner. See Angle.]
1. Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or
angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered;
pointed; as, an angular figure.
2. Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.
3. Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff
in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and
appearance; an angular female.
Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture,
Distance.
Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or
fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the
angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to
the body.
Angular point, the point at which the sides of the angle
meet; the vertex.
Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time
employed in describing. Assistance
Assistance As*sist"ance, n. [Cf. F. assistance.]
1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor;
support.
Without the assistance of a mortal hand. --Shak.
2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. [Obs.]
Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord
mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John
Cavendish. --Fuller.
3. Persons present. [Obs. or a Gallicism]
Assistant
Assistant As*sist"ant, a. [Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of
assister.]
1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly
assistant to each other. --Beattie.
2. (Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as,
an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]
Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in
any particular branch of the staff. --Farrow.
Assistant
Assistant As*sist"ant, n.
1. One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a
means of help.
Four assistants who his labor share. --Pope.
Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. --Mrs.
Chapone.
2. An attendant; one who is present. --Dryden.
Assistantly
Assistantly As*sist"ant*ly, adv.
In a manner to give aid. [R.]
Desistance
Desistance De*sist"ance, n. [Cf. F. desistance.]
The act or state of desisting; cessation. [R.] --Boyle.
If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed
by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom
out of working order. --H. Spencer.
DistanceDistance Dis"tance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distanced; p. pr. &
vb. n. Distancing.]
1. To place at a distance or remotely.
I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles
distanced thence. --Fuller.
2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem
remote.
His peculiar art of distancing an object to
aggrandize his space. --H. Miller.
3. To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n.,
3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.
He distanced the most skillful of his
contemporaries. --Milner. DistancedDistance Dis"tance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distanced; p. pr. &
vb. n. Distancing.]
1. To place at a distance or remotely.
I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles
distanced thence. --Fuller.
2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem
remote.
His peculiar art of distancing an object to
aggrandize his space. --H. Miller.
3. To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n.,
3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.
He distanced the most skillful of his
contemporaries. --Milner. DistancingDistance Dis"tance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distanced; p. pr. &
vb. n. Distancing.]
1. To place at a distance or remotely.
I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles
distanced thence. --Fuller.
2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem
remote.
His peculiar art of distancing an object to
aggrandize his space. --H. Miller.
3. To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n.,
3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.
He distanced the most skillful of his
contemporaries. --Milner. Distancy
Distancy Dis"tan*cy, n.
Distance. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
Distantial
Distantial Dis*tan"tial, a.
Distant. [Obs.]
More distantial from the eye. --W. Montagu.
Distantly
Distantly Dis"tant*ly, adv.
At a distance; remotely; with reserve.
Equidistance
Equidistance E`qui*dis"tance, n.
Equal distance.
Focal distance of a telescopeFocal Fo"cal, a. [Cf. F. focal. See Focus.]
Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.
Focal distance, or length, of a lens or mirror (Opt.), the
distance of the focus from the surface of the lens or
mirror, or more exactly, in the case of a lens, from its
optical center.
Focal distance of a telescope, the distance of the image of
an object from the object glass. Focal distance or length of a lens or mirrorFocal Fo"cal, a. [Cf. F. focal. See Focus.]
Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.
Focal distance, or length, of a lens or mirror (Opt.), the
distance of the focus from the surface of the lens or
mirror, or more exactly, in the case of a lens, from its
optical center.
Focal distance of a telescope, the distance of the image of
an object from the object glass. Indistancy
Indistancy In*dis"tan*cy, n.
Want of distance o? separation; nearness. [Obs.] --Bp.
Pearson.
Inequidistant
Inequidistant In*e`qui*dis"tant, a.
Not equally distant; not equidistant.
InexistantInexistant In`ex*ist"ant, a. [Cf. F. inexistant. See 1st
Inexistent.]
Inexistent; not existing. [Obs.] --Gudworth. Irresistance
Irresistance Ir`re*sist"ance, n.
Nonresistance; passive submission.
Mean distanceMean Mean, a. [OE. mene, OF. meiien, F. moyen, fr. L. medianus
that is in the middle, fr. medius; akin to E. mid. See
Mid.]
1. Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway
between extremes.
Being of middle age and a mean stature. --Sir. P.
Sidney.
2. Intermediate in excellence of any kind.
According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or
lowly. --Milton.
3. (Math.) Average; having an intermediate value between two
extremes, or between the several successive values of a
variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean
distance; mean motion; mean solar day.
Mean distance (of a planet from the sun) (Astron.), the
average of the distances throughout one revolution of the
planet, equivalent to the semi-major axis of the orbit.
Mean error (Math. Phys.), the average error of a number of
observations found by taking the mean value of the
positive and negative errors without regard to sign.
Mean-square error, or Error of the mean square (Math.
Phys.), the error the square of which is the mean of the
squares of all the errors; -- called also, especially by
European writers, mean error.
Mean line. (Crystallog.) Same as Bisectrix.
Mean noon, noon as determined by mean time.
Mean proportional (between two numbers) (Math.), the square
root of their product.
Mean sun, a fictitious sun supposed to move uniformly in
the equator so as to be on the meridian each day at mean
noon.
Mean time, time as measured by an equable motion, as of a
perfect clock, or as reckoned on the supposition that all
the days of the year are of a mean or uniform length, in
contradistinction from apparent time, or that actually
indicated by the sun, and from sidereal time, or that
measured by the stars. Middle distanceMiddle Mid"dle, a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel,
OHG. muttil, G. mittel. ????. See Mid, a.]
1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of
things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house
in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of
middle summer; men of middle age.
2. Intermediate; intervening.
Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. --Sir J.
Davies.
Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of
selfexplaining compounds; as, middle-sized,
middle-witted.
Middle Ages, the period of time intervening between the
decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters.
Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending
with the fifteenth century.
Middle class, in England, people who have an intermediate
position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It
includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small
landed proprietors
The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. --M.
Arnold.
Middle distance. (Paint.) See Middle-ground.
Middle English. See English, n., 2.
Middle Kingdom, China.
Middle oil (Chem.), that part of the distillate obtained
from coal tar which passes over between 170[deg] and
230[deg] Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light, and
the heavy or dead, oil.
Middle passage, in the slave trade, that part of the
Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies.
Middle post. (Arch.) Same as King-post.
Middle States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and
Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the
Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern
States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.]
Middle term (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which
the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of
which they are brought together in the conclusion.
--Brande.
Middle tint (Paint.), a subdued or neutral tint.
--Fairholt.
Middle voice. (Gram.) See under Voice.
Middle watch, the period from midnight to four A. M.; also,
the men on watch during that time. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Middle weight, a pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of
medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in
distinction from those classed as light weights, heavy
weights, etc. Nonresistance
Nonresistance Non`re*sist"ance, n.
The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive
obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or
violence without opposition.
Nonresistant
Nonresistant Non`re*sist"ant, a.
Making no resistance.
Nonresistant
Nonresistant Non`re*sist"ant, n.
One who maintains that no resistance should be made to
constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively
exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute
submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be
resisted by force.
Resistance frame
Resistance frame Re*sist"ance frame` (Elec.)
A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched
spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they
radiate heat rapidly.
SacristanSacristan Sac"ris*tan, n. [F. sacristain, LL. sacrista, fr. L.
sacer. See Sacred, and cf. Sexton.]
An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or
movables, and of the church in general; a sexton. Skin resistanceSkin Skin, n. [Icel. skinn; akin to Sw. skinn, Dan. skind, AS.
scinn, G. schined to skin.]
1. (Anat.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
Note: In man, and the vertebrates generally, the skin consist
of two layers, an outer nonsensitive and nonvascular
epidermis, cuticle, or skarfskin, composed of cells
which are constantly growing and multiplying in the
deeper, and being thrown off in the superficial,
layers; and an inner sensitive, and vascular dermis,
cutis, corium, or true skin, composed mostly of
connective tissue.
2. The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether
green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal,
as a calf, sheep, or goat.
3. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See
Bottle, 1. ``Skins of wine.' --Tennyson.
4. The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of
fruits and plants.
5. (Naut.)
(a) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the
outside and covers the whole. --Totten.
(b) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside
the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel;
the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
Skin friction, Skin resistance (Naut.), the friction, or
resistance, caused by the tendency of water to adhere to
the immersed surface (skin) of a vessel.
Skin graft (Surg.), a small portion of skin used in the
process of grafting. See Graft, v. t., 2.
Skin moth (Zo["o]l.), any insect which destroys the
prepared skins of animals, especially the larva of
Dermestes and Anthrenus.
Skin of the teeth, nothing, or next to nothing; the least
possible hold or advantage. --Job xix. 20.
Skin wool, wool taken from dead sheep. Striking distanceStriking Strik"ing,
a. & n. from Strike, v.
Striking distance, the distance through which an object can
be reached by striking; the distance at which a force is
effective when directed to a particular object. Unresistance
Unresistance Un`re*sist"ance, n.
Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. --Bp. Hall.
Meaning of Istan from wikipedia
-
Istán is a town and muni****lity in the
province of Málaga in
Andalusia in
southern Spain with an
estimated po****tion in 2005 of 1400 people. It lies...
- stan (Persian: ستان stân, estân or
istân) has the
meaning of "a
place abounding in" or "a
place where anything abounds" as a suffix. It is
widely used...
-
eleven villages: Band, Drăculea
Bandului (Drekulyatelep), Fânațe (Fekete),
Iștan-Tău (Istentó), Mărășești (Marosesd),
Negrenii de Câmpie (Feketelak), Oroiu...
- The
Eastern Province (Krio:
Istan Prɔvins) is one of the four
provinces of
Sierra Leone. It
covers an area of 15,553 km2 and has a po****tion of 1,641...
- Desert. The name is
derived from the
Turkic word chol,
meaning "sands," and
istan, a
Persian suffix meaning "land of."
Cholistan was a
center for caravan...
- when it was
described as "the
largest tree in England"
Sacred Chestnut of
Istán, 46-foot (14 m) cir****ference,
estimated to be
between 800 and 1,000 years...
-
death of her father,
Angharad "Harry"
Crewe joins her
brother Richard in
Istan, a
remote military outpost of the
colonial power known as the Homeland....
-
between the
coast and the
Sierra de las
Nieves in the muni****l
terms of
Istán, Ojén,
Marbella and Monda. The
easiest route to
reach it is from Marbella...
- from Farang,
which is the
Persianized form of Frank, plus the
suffix -
istan coming from the
Persian language and
meaning "place of", "place abounding...
- Spain.
Nearby cities include Mijas to the east,
Marbella to the south,
Istán to the west, and
Monda and Coín to the north. Its name is
oddly derived...
