Word Meanings - ATOMICITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.

Related words: (words related to ATOMICITY)

• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• VALENCE
  The degree of combining power of an atom as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom
• ATOMICIAN
  An atomist.
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• ATOMICISM
  Atomism.
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• LATERED
  Inclined to delay; dilatory. "When a man is too latered." Chaucer.
• ATTRACTION
  An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting
• NUMBERLESS
  Innumerable; countless.
• ATOMICITY
  Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.
• EQUIVALENCE
  1. The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions. 2. Equal power or force; equivalent amount. The quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen
• DEGREE
  A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
• LATERITIC
  consisting of, containing, or characterized by, laterite; as, lateritic formations.
• NUMBER
  The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of
• NUMBERS
  of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• LATERITIOUS
  Like bricks; of the color of red bricks. Lateritious sediment , a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of uric acid or urates with some coloring
• DIATOMIC
  Containing two atoms. Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• PENTATOMIC
  Having five atoms in the molecule. Having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution.
• OUTNUMBER
  To exceed in number.
• TETRAVALENCE
  The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.
• HELIOLATER
  A worshiper of the sun.
• ELATEROMETER
  See ELATROMETER
• MULTIVALENCE
  Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical.
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
• ANATOMIC; ANATOMICAL
  Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.