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Catonian
Catonian Ca*to"ni*an, a. [L. Catonionus.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato
the Censor; severe; inflexible.
Daltonian
Daltonian Dal*to"ni*an, n.
One afflicted with color blindness.
Huttonian
Huttonian Hut*to"ni*an, a.
Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the
earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton. --Lyell.
Miltonian
Miltonian Mil*to"ni*an, a.
Miltonic. --Lowell.
Muggletonian
Muggletonian Mug`gle*to"ni*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an
English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be
inspired. --Eadie.
Newtonian
Newtonian New*to"ni*an, n.
A follower of Newton.
Newtonian potentialPotential Po*ten"tial, n.
1. Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
--Bacon.
2. (Math.) In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces
acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates
which determine the position of a point, such that its
differential coefficients with respect to the
co["o]rdinates are equal to the components of the force at
the point considered; -- also called potential function,
or force function. It is called also Newtonian
potential when the force is directed to a fixed center
and is inversely as the square of the distance from the
center.
3. (Elec.) The energy of an electrical charge measured by its
power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as
referred to some standard, as that of the earth;
electro-motive force. Plutonian
Plutonian Plu*to"ni*an, a. [L. Plutonius, Gr. ?: cf. F.
plutonien.]
Plutonic. --Poe.
Plutonian
Plutonian Plu*to"ni*an, n. (Geol.)
A Plutonist.
Sequoia WashingtonianaSequoia Se*quoi"a, n. [NL. So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor
of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet.] (Bot.)
A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species,
Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the ``big
tree' of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood,
both of which attain an immense height. Washingtonian
Washingtonian Wash`ing*to"ni*an, a.
1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington;
as, a Washingtonian policy. --Lowell.
2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and
movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of
total abstinence. -- n. A member of the Washingtonian
Society.
Meaning of Tonian from wikipedia
- The
Tonian (from
Ancient Gr****: τόνος, romanized: tónos,
meaning "stretch") is the
first geologic period of the
Neoproterozoic Era. It
lasted from 1000...
- the
Phanerozoic eon, and is
further subdivided into
three periods, the
Tonian,
Cryogenian and Ediacaran. One of the most
severe glaciation event known...
-
Neoproterozoic era and the
Tonian period. The
supercontinent Rodinia ****embled
during the Stenian. It
would last into the
Tonian period before breaking up...
-
Namibia in
which the
fossils were found. The
oldest fossils are from the
Tonian period,
before the
Cryogenian glaciations, but the
latest found were from...
- controversial; the sponge-like
organism Otavia has been
dated back to the
Tonian period at the
start of the Neoproterozoic, but its
identity as an animal...
- of
species described. It has also been
found in
sediments dating to the
Tonian (~1,000 million
years ago).
Cyclomedusa was
originally thought to be a jellyfish...
- the
supercontinent of Rodinia, a
state of
affairs which lasted until the
Tonian about 750
million years ago when it
broke up, and
Siberia became part of...
-
second of the
three periods of the
Neoproterozoic era,
preceded by the
Tonian and
followed by the Ediacaran. The
Cryogenian was a time of
drastic climate...
- appeared. Cryogenian: The
middle period in the
Neoproterozoic Era: 635-720 Ma.
Tonian: the
earliest period of the
Neoproterozoic Era: 720-1000 Ma. Mesoproterozoic:...
-
spanning from the
Statherian period of the
Paleoproterozoic era to the
Tonian period of the
Neoproterozoic era, the NOE was the
second major increase...
