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Abevacuation
Abevacuation Ab`e*vac"u*a"tion, n. [Pref. ab- + evacuation.]
(Med.)
A partial evacuation. --Mayne.
Accentuation
Accentuation Ac*cen`tu*a"tion, n. [LL. accentuatio: cf. F.
accentuation.]
Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically
(Eccles. Mus.), pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting
portions of the liturgy.
Actuation
Actuation Ac`tu*a"tion, n. [Cf. LL. actuatio.]
A bringing into action; movement. --Bp. Pearson.
Acuation
Acuation Ac`u*a"tion, n.
Act of sharpening. [R.]
Adequation
Adequation Ad`e*qua"tion, n. [L. adaequatio.]
The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an
equivalent. [Obs.] --Bp. Barlow.
an equationDiscussion Dis*cus"sion, n. [L. discussio a shaking,
examination, discussion: cf. F. discussion.]
1. The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or
dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.
2. The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination
by argument; debate; disputation; agitation.
The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard of
all other liberties. --Macaulay.
Discussion of a problem or an equation (Math.), the
operation of assigning different reasonable values to the
arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result. --Math.
Dict. Antiquation
Antiquation An`ti*qua"tion, n. [L. antiquatio, fr. antiquare.]
The act of making antiquated, or the state of being
antiquated. --Beaumont.
Appropinquation
Appropinquation Ap`pro*pin*qua"tion, n. [L. appropinquatio.]
A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] --Bp. Hall.
Arcuation
Arcuation Arc`u*a"tion, n. [L. arcuatio.]
1. The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of
being bent; crookedness. --Coxe.
2. (Hort.) A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to
the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth;
layering. --Chambers.
Biquadratic equationBiquadratic Bi`quad*rat"ic, a. [Pref. bi- + quadratic: cf. F.
biquadratique.] (Math.)
Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power.
Biquadratic equation (Alg.), an equation of the fourth
degree, or an equation in some term of which the unknown
quantity is raised to the fourth power.
Biquadratic root of a number, the square root of the square
root of that number. Thus the square root of 81 is 9, and
the square root of 9 is 3, which is the biquadratic root
of 81. Hutton. Colliquation
Colliquation Col`li*qua"tion, n.
1. A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
When sand and ashes are well melted together and
suffered to cool, there is generated, by the
colliquation, that sort of concretion we call
``glass'. --Boyle.
2. (Med.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid
parts of the animal system with copious excretions of
liquids by one or more passages. [Obs.]
Construction of an equationConstruction Con*struc"tion, n. [L. constructio: cf. F.
construction.]
1. The process or art of constructing; the act of building;
erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication;
composition.
2. The form or manner of building or putting together the
parts of anything; structure; arrangement.
An astrolabe of peculiar construction. --Whewell.
3. (Gram.) The arrangement and connection of words in a
sentence; syntactical arrangement.
Some particles . . . in certain constructions have
the sense of a whole sentence contained in them.
--Locke.
4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning;
understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense.
Any person . . . might, by the sort of construction
that would be put on this act, become liable to the
penalties of treason. --Hallam.
Strictly, the term [construction] signifies
determining the meaning and proper effect of
language by a consideration of the subject matter
and attendant circumstances in connection with the
words employed. --Abbott.
Interpretation properly precedes construction, but
it does not go beyond the written text. --Parsons.
Construction of an equation (Math.), the drawing of such
lines and figures as will represent geometrically the
quantities in the equation, and their relations to each
other.
Construction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men
and materials for construction or repairs. Continuation
Continuation Con*tin`u*a"tion, n. [L. continuatio: cf. F.
connuation.]
1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being
continued; uninterrupted extension or succession;
prolongation; propagation.
Preventing the continuation of the royal line.
--Macaulay.
2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on;
as, the continuation of a story.
My continuation of the version of Statius. --Pope.
Cubic equationCubic Cu"bic (k?"b?k), Cubical Cu"bic*al (-b?-kal), a. [L.
cubicus, Gr. ?????: cf. F. cubique. See Cube.]
1. Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or
capable of being contained, in a cube.
2. (Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage.
See Crystallization.
Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of
the unknown quantity is a cube.
Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which
measures a foot in each of its dimensions.
Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number
into itself, and that product again by the same number.
See Cube.
Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree,
one plane, and one on space of three dimensions. Deliquation
Deliquation Del`i*qua"tion, n.
A melting. [Obs.]
Determinate equationsDeterminate De*ter"mi*nate, a. [L. determinatus, p. p. of
determinare. See Determine.]
1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed;
established; definite.
Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.
--Dryden.
2. Conclusive; decisive; positive.
The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
--Acts ii. 23.
3. Determined or resolved upon. [Obs.]
My determinate voyage. --Shak.
4. Of determined purpose; resolute. [Obs.]
More determinate to do than skillful how to do.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
Determinate inflorescence (Bot.), that in which the
flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which
puts a limit to its growth; -- also called centrifugal
inflorescence.
Determinate problem (Math.), a problem which admits of a
limited number of solutions.
Determinate quantities, Determinate equations (Math.),
those that are finite in the number of values or
solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem
or equation determine the number. Discontinuation
Discontinuation Dis`con*tin`u*a"tion, n. [Cf. F.
discontinuation.]
Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in
a connected series; discontinuance.
Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by
bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury
falls. --Sir I.
Newton.
Disvaluation
Disvaluation Dis*val`u*a"tion, n.
Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute. --Bacon.
Effectuation
Effectuation Ef*fec`tu*a"tion, n.
Act of effectuating.
ElinguationElinguation E`lin*gua"tion, n. [L. elinguatio. See
Elinguid.] (O. Eng. Law)
Punishment by cutting out the tongue. Eliquation
Eliquation El`i*qua"tion, n. [L. eliquatio, fr. eliquare to
clarify, strain; e + liquare to make liquid, melt.]
(Metallurgy)
The process of separating a fusible substance from one less
fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the
one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead;
liquation. --Ure.
Estuation
Estuation Es`tu*a"tion, n. [L. aestuatio.]
The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.
The estuations of joys and fears. --W. Montagu.
Eventuation
Eventuation E*ven`tu*a"tion, n.
The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.
--R. W. Hamilton.
ExacuationExacuate Ex*ac"u*ate, v. t. [L. exacure; ex out (intens.) +
acuere to make sharp.]
To whet or sharpen. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- Ex*ac`u*a"tion,
n. [Obs.] Exestuation
Exestuation Ex*es`tu*a"tion, n. [L. exaestuatio.]
A boiling up; effervescence. [Obs.] --Boyle.
Exponential equationExponential Ex`po*nen"tial, a. [Cf. F. exponentiel.]
Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an
exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential
function.
Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means
of an exponential equation.
Exponential equation, an equation which contains an
exponential quantity, or in which the unknown quantity
enters as an exponent.
Exponential quantity (Math.), a quantity whose exponent is
unknown or variable, as a^x.
Exponential series, a series derived from the development
of exponential equations or quantities. FebruationFebruation Feb`ru*a"tion, n. [L. februatio. See february.]
Purification; a sacrifice. [Obs.] --Spenser. Fluctuation
Fluctuation Fluc`tu*a"tion, n. [L. fluctuatio; cf. F.
fluctuation.]
1. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that
direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
2. A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion;
fluctuations of prices.
3. (Med.) The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a
natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is
subjected to pressure or percussion. --Dunglison.
Fructuation
Fructuation Fruc"tu*a`tion (-[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
Produce; fruit. [R.]
Habituation
Habituation Ha*bit`u*a"tion, n. [Cf. F. habituation.]
The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being
habituated.
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