Word Meanings - HYPONASTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface.

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• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• INFERIOR
  Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court , a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure , a small letter or figure standing at the
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• DOWNWARD
  1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden. 2. Descending from a head, origin, or source;
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• SURFACE
  A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. (more info) 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face;
• SURFACER
  A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
• CONVEXITY
  The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.
• DOWNWARD; DOWNWARDS
  1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton. 2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery,
• 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.
• ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• ADVANCING SURFACE
  The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.
• SINGLE-SURFACED
  Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.