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Artificial classificationArtificial Ar`ti*fi"cial, a. [L. artificialis, fr. artificium:
cf. F. artificiel. See Artifice.]
1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human
skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial
heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier
than life. --Shak.
2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
``Artificial tears.' --Shak.
3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] --Shak.
4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as,
artificial grasses. --Gibbon.
Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the
speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the
like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs.
--Johnson.
Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based
on superficial characters, and not expressing the true
natural relations species; as, ``the artificial system'
in botany, which is the same as the Linn[ae]an system.
Artificial horizon. See under Horizon.
Artificial light, any light other than that which proceeds
from the heavenly bodies.
Artificial lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived
as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which,
by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable
exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.
Artificial numbers, logarithms.
Artificial person (Law). See under Person.
Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms
of the natural sines, tangents, etc. --Hutton. Artificial classificationClassification Clas`si*fi*ca"tion, n. [Cf. F. classification.]
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution
into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to
some common relations or affinities.
Artificial classification. (Science) See under
Artifitial. Classifiable
Classifiable Clas"si*fi`a*ble, a.
Capable of being classified.
Classific
Classific Clas*sif"ic, a.
Characterizing a class or classes; relating to
classification.
ClassificationClassification Clas`si*fi*ca"tion, n. [Cf. F. classification.]
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution
into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to
some common relations or affinities.
Artificial classification. (Science) See under
Artifitial. Classificatory
Classificatory Clas"si*fi*ca`to*ry, a.
Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.
``A classificatory system.' --Earle.
ClassifiedClassify Clas"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & pp. Classified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Classifying.] [L. classis class + ?]
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system;
to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common
properties or characters.
Syn: To arrange; distibute; rank. Classifier
Classifier Clas"si*fi`er, n.
One who classifies.
FlossificationFlossification Flos`si*fi*ca"tion, n. [Cf. Florification.]
A flowering; florification. [R.] --Craig. GrossificationGrossification Gross`i*fi*ca"tion, n. [Gross + L. ficare (in
comp.) to make. See -fy.]
1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming
so.
2. (Bot.) The swelling of the ovary of plants after
fertilization. Henslow. MissificateMissificate Mis*sif"i*cate, v. i. [LL. missa Mass + -ficare
(in comp.) to make. See fy-.]
To perform Mass. [Obs.] --Milton. OssificOssific Os*sif"ic, a. [L. os, ossis, bone + facere to make:
cf. F. ossifique. See Fact.]
Capable of producing bone; having the power to change
cartilage or other tissue into bone. OssificationOssification Os`si*fi*ca"tion, n. [Cf. F. ossification. See
Ossify.]
1. (Physiol.) The formation of bone; the process, in the
growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly
lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming
bony tissue; ostosis.
Note: Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue,
there is the so-called accidental ossification which
sometimes follows certain abnormal conditions, as in
the ossification of an artery.
2. The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a
mass or point of ossified tissue. OssifiedOssify Os"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ossified; p. pr. & vb.
n. Ossifying.] [L. os, ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier.
See Osseous.]
1. (Physiol.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal
substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
2. Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. --Ruskin. Ossified
Ossified Os"si*fied, a.
Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by
deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.
RussificationRussification Rus"si*fi*ca"tion, n. [Russia + L. -ficare (in
comp.) to make. See -fy.]
The act or process of Russifying, or the state of being
Russified. Unossified
Unossified Un*os"si*fied, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Destitute of a bony structure.
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