Word Meanings - PLANO-CONVEX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other; as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.

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• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• PLANOMETER
  An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface. See Surface gauge, under Surface.
• CONVEXED
  Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.
• CONVEXEDNESS
  Convexity.
• CONVEX
  Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• PLANOMETRY
  The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• PLANO-CONCAVE
  Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens.
• PLANO-ORBICULAR
  Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.
• PLANO-SUBULATE
  Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate.
• OTHERGATES
  In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
• PLANO-HORIZONTAL
  Having a level horizontal surface or position. Lee.
• PLANO-CONICAL
  Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other. Grew.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.