Word Meanings - HYGROMETRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That branch of physics which relates to the determination of the humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with the theory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose.
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- CONSTRUCT
together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order; - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - BRANCHLESS
Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked. - BRANCHING
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton. - BRANCHIOPODA
An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - BRANCHINESS
Fullness of branches. - CONSTRUCTIVELY
In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - ATMOSPHERE
The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. Any gaseous envelope or medium. An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller. 2. A supposed - BRANCHY
Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott. - PARTICULARLY
1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - PHYSICS
The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, - CONSTRUCTIVE
1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred. - THEORY
1. A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation. Note: "This word is employed by English writers in a very loose and improper sense. It is with them usually - BRANCH
1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in. 2. To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser. - CONSTRUCTION
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 - PURPOSER
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - NUDIBRANCHIATA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia. - ABRANCHIAL
Abranchiate. - PYGOBRANCHIA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris. - PODOBRANCH
One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea. - ASPIDOBRANCHIA
A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets. - LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n. - VORTEX THEORY
The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid. - EPIBRANCHIAL
Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. - HYPOBRANCHIAL
Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. - PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
See -ATE (more info) & n. - PERENNIBRANCHIATE
Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate. - TECTIBRANCHIATE
Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n. - SCYPHOBRANCHII
An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families. - METAPHYSICS
first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that part of his writings which came after, or followed, the part which treated of 1. The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with - DERMOBRANCHIATE
Having the skin modified to serve as a gill. - DINGDONG THEORY
The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first