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Word Meanings - FLUOPHOSPHATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.

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  • DOUBLEGANGER
    An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
  • DOUBLE
    Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
  • DOUBLE-SHADE
    To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
  • DOUBLE-LOCK
    To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
  • DOUBLE DEALER
    One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
  • DOUBLEHEARTED
    Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
  • DOUBLETHREADED
    Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
  • DOUBLE-BARRELED; DOUBLE-BARRELLED
    Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.
  • DOUBLE-ACTING
    Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.
  • DOUBLE-SURFACED
    Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.
  • DOUBLET
    A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time. 3. A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century. (more info) 1.
  • DOUBLENESS
    1. The state of being double or doubled. 2. Duplicity; insincerity. Chaucer.
  • DOUBLE-TONGUING
    A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
  • DOUBLE DEALING
    False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing. Shak.
  • DOUBLETREE
    The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.
  • DOUBLE-ENTENDRE
    A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate. (more info) This is a barbarous compound of French words. The true French
  • DOUBLE-RIPPER
    A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other.
  • DOUBLE-TONGUED
    Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Tim. iii.
  • DOUBLE-HEADED
    Having two heads; bicipital. Double-headed rail , a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.
  • DOUBLE-BANKED
    Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
  • WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
    A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
  • PARAPHOSPHORIC
    Pyrophosphoric.
  • METAPHOSPHORIC
    Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.
  • UNDOUBLE
    To unfold, or render single.

 

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