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AbnormalitiesAbnormality Ab`nor*mal"i*ty, n.; pl. Abnormalities.
1. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation;
irregularity. --Darwin.
2. Something abnormal. AvailabilitiesAvailability A*vail`a*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Availabilities.
1. The quality of being available; availableness.
Note: The word is sometimes used derogatively in the sense of
``mere availableness,' or capability of success
without regard to worthiness.
He was . . . nominated for his availability.
--Lowell.
2. That which is available. Calculus of probabilitiesCalculus 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. CapabilitiesCapability Ca`pa*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Capabilities.
1. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp.
intellectual power or ability.
A capability to take a thousand views of a subject.
--H. Taylor.
2. Capacity of being used or improved. CentralitiesCentrality Cen*tral"i*ty, n.; pl. Centralities.
The state of being central; tendency towards a center.
Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence
equal to the centrifugence. --R. W.
Emerson. ComicalitiesComicality Com`i*cal"i*ty, n.; pl. Comicalities.
The quality of being comical; something comical. ConventionalitiesConventionality Con*ven`tion*al"i*ty, n.; pl.
Conventionalities.
The state of being conventional; adherence to social
formalities or usages; that which is established by
conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life. ConvivialitiesConviviality Con*viv`i*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Convivialities.
The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a
convivial spirit or humor; festivity. CorporalitiesCorporality Cor`po*ral"i*ty (k?r`p?-r?l"l?-t?), n.: pl.
Corporalities (-t?z). [L. corporalitas: cf. F.
corporalit?.]
1. The state of being or having a body; bodily existence;
corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. --Dr. H. More.
2. A confraternity; a guild. [Obs.] --Milton. CorporealitiesCorporeality Cor*po`re*al"i*ty (-?l"?-t?), n.: pl.
Corporealities (-t[i^]z).
The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence. DisabilitiesDisability Dis`a*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Disabilities.
1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability;
absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral
power, means, fitness, and the like.
Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was
covenanted. --Milton.
Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability.
--Bancroft.
2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal
incapacity or incompetency.
The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture.
--Abbott.
Syn: Weakness; inability; incompetence; impotence;
incapacity; incompetency; disqualification.
Usage: -- Disability, Inability. Inability is an inherent
want of power to perform the thing in question;
disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the
needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a
disability of holding his estate; and one who is made
a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may
decline an office on account of his inability to
discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust
or employment on account of some disability prevents
him from entering into such engagements. EqualitiesEquality E*qual"i*ty, n.; pl. Equalities. [L. aequalitas,
fr. aequalis equal. See Equal.]
1. The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in
quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value,
rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in
length or thickness; an equality of rights.
A footing of equality with nobles. --Macaulay.
2. Sameness in state or continued course; evenness;
uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.
3. Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.
4. (Math.) Exact agreement between two expressions or
magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the
symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same
number and kind of units of measure that x does.
Confessional equality. See under Confessional. FeasibilitiesFeasibility Fea"si*bil*ity
.; pl. Feasibilities (-tiz).
[from Feasible]
The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that
which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us
consider its feasibility.
Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for
certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. --Sir T.
Browne. FinalitiesFinality Fi*nal"i*ty, n.; pl. Finalities. [L. finalitas the
being last.]
1. The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final
or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. --Baxter.
2. The relation of end or purpose to its means. --Janet. IdealitiesIdeality I`de*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Idealities.
1. The quality or state of being ideal.
2. The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
3. (Phren.) The conceptive faculty. ImperialitiesImperiality Im*pe`ri*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Imperialities.
1. Imperial power.
2. An imperial right or privilegs. See Royalty.
The late empress having, by ukases of grace,
relinquished her imperialities on the private mines,
viz., the tenths of the copper, iron, silver and
gold. --W. Tooke. ImpracticabilitiesImpracticability Im*prac`ti*ca*bil"i*ty, n.; pl.
Impracticabilities.
1. The state or quality of being impracticable;
infeasibility. --Goldsmith.
2. An impracticable thing.
3. Intractableness; stubbornness. InequalitiesInequality In`e*qual"i*ty, n.; pl. Inequalities. [L.
inaequalitas.]
1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of
equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an
inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances,
motions, rank, property, etc.
There is so great an inequality in the length of our
legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to walk
on all four. --Ray.
Notwithstanding which inequality of number, it was
resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch
fleet. --Ludlow.
Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great
inequality of condition. --Macaulay.
2. Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and
falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface
of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc.
The country is cut into so many hills and
inequalities as renders it defensible. --Addison.
3. Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of
smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of
the weather, feelings, etc.
Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health.
--Bacon.
4. Disproportion to any office or purpose; inadequacy;
competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to
the wants of a rational soul. --South.
5. (Alg.) An expression consisting of two unequal quantities,
with the sign of inequality (.gt. or .lt.) between them;
as, the inequality 2 .lt. 3, or 4 .gt. 1.
6. (Astron.) An irregularity, or a deviation, in the motion
of a planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion; the
amount of such deviation. InformalitiesInformality In`for*mal"i*ty, n.; pl. Informalities.
1. The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed,
or customary form; as, the informality of legal
proceedings.
2. An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or
proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed
form or does not conform to the established rule. InstrumentalitiesInstrumentality In`stru*men*tal"i*ty, n.; pl.
Instrumentalities.
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is
instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
The instrumentality of faith in justification. --Bp.
Burnet.
The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of
attack and defense in a new instrumentality. --J. H.
Newman. Mollities
Mollities Mol*li"ti*es, n. [L., softness.] (Med.)
Unnatural softness of any organ or part. --Dunglison.
Occult qualitiesOccult 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. PolitiesPolity Pol"i*ty, n.; pl. Polities. [L. politia, Gr. ?: cf.
F. politie. See 1st Policy, Police.]
1. The form or constitution of the civil government of a
nation or state; the framework or organization by which
the various departments of government are combined into a
systematic whole. --Blackstone. Hooker.
2. Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution
is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the
foundation of any human institution.
Nor is possible that any form of polity, much less
polity ecclesiastical, should be good, unless God
himself be author of it. --Hooker.
3. Policy; art; management. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Syn: Policy.
Usage: Polity, Policy. These two words were originally
the same. Polity is now confined to the structure of a
government; as, civil or ecclesiastical polity; while
policy is applied to the scheme of management of
public affairs with reference to some aim or result;
as, foreign or domestic policy. Policy has the further
sense of skillful or cunning management. Primary qualities of bodiesPrimary Pri"ma*ry, a. [L. primarius, fr. primus first: cf. F.
primaire. See Prime, a., and cf. Premier, Primero.]
1. First in order of time or development or in intention;
primitive; fundamental; original.
The church of Christ, in its primary institution.
--Bp. Pearson.
These I call original, or primary, qualities of
body. --Locke.
2. First in order, as being preparatory to something higher;
as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
3. First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as,
primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
4. (Geol.) Earliest formed; fundamental.
5. (Chem.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by,
some quality or property in the first degree; having
undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
Primary alcohol (Organic Chem.), any alcohol which possess
the group CH2.OH, and can be oxidized so as to form a
corresponding aldehyde and acid having the same number of
carbon atoms; -- distinguished from secondary & tertiary
alcohols.
Primary amine (Chem.), an amine containing the amido group,
or a derivative of ammonia in which only one atom of
hydrogen has been replaced by a basic radical; --
distinguished from secondary & tertiary amines.
Primary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury
performed as soon as the shock due to the injury has
passed away, and before symptoms of inflammation
supervene.
Primary axis (Bot.), the main stalk which bears a whole
cluster of flowers.
Primary colors. See under Color.
Primary meeting, a meeting of citizens at which the first
steps are taken towards the nomination of candidates, etc.
See Caucus.
Primary pinna (Bot.), one of those portions of a compound
leaf or frond which branch off directly from the main
rhachis or stem, whether simple or compounded.
Primary planets. (Astron.) See the Note under Planet.
Primary qualities of bodies, such are essential to and
inseparable from them.
Primary quills (Zo["o]l.), the largest feathers of the wing
of a bird; primaries.
Primary rocks (Geol.), a term early used for rocks supposed
to have been first formed, being crystalline and
containing no organic remains, as granite, gneiss, etc.;
-- called also primitive rocks. The terms Secondary,
Tertiary, and Quaternary rocks have also been used in like
manner, but of these the last two only are now in use.
Primary salt (Chem.), a salt derived from a polybasic acid
in which only one acid hydrogen atom has been replaced by
a base or basic radical.
Primary syphilis (Med.), the initial stage of syphilis,
including the period from the development of the original
lesion or chancre to the first manifestation of symptoms
indicative of general constitutional infection.
Primary union (Surg.), union without suppuration; union by
the first intention. Qualitied
Qualitied Qual"i*tied, a.
Furnished with qualities; endowed. [Obs.] ``He was well
qualitied.' --Chapman.
RascalitiesRascality Ras*cal`i*ty, n.; pl. Rascalities
1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean
trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.
2. The poorer and lower classes of people. [Obs.]
The chief heads of their clans with their several
rascalities --T. Jackson. SeveralitiesSeverality Sev`er*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Severalities.
Each particular taken singly; distinction. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. SodalitiesSodality So*dal"i*ty, n.; pl. Sodalities. [L. sodalitas, fr.
sodalis a comrade.]
1. A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.
2. (R.C.Ch.) Specifically, a lay association for devotion or
for charitable purposes. TechnicalitiesTechnicality Tech`ni*cal"i*ty, n.; pl. Technicalities.
1. The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.
2. That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade,
profession, sect, or the like.
The technicalities of the sect. --Palfrey. Unqualitied
Unqualitied Un*qual"i*tied, a. [1st pref. un- + quality.]
Deprived of the usual faculties. [Obs.] --Shak.
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