Word Meanings - SESQUISALT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.

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• DERIVE
  To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
• SESQUITERTIAL
  Sesquitertian.
• SESQUITERTIAN; SESQUITERTIANAL
  Having the ratio of one and one third to one .
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• SESQUIALTEROUS
  Sesquialteral.
• SESQUIBASIC
  Containing, or acting as, a base in the proportions of a sesqui compound.
• SESQUIPEDALITY
  1. The quality or condition of being sesquipedal. Sterne. 2. The use of sesquipedalian words; style characterized by the use of long words; sesquipedalism.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• SESQUISALT
  A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.
• SESQUISULPHIDE
  A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.
• SESQUIOXIDE
  An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide.
• SESQUITONE
  A minor third, or interval of three semitones.
• SESQUIALTER; SESQUIALTERA
  A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reënforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.
• SESQUIPLICATE
  Subduplicate of the triplicate; -- a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a' are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b', when a is to a' as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b', or a:a'::sq. rootb3:sq. rootb'3.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• DERIVEMENT
  That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.
• SESQUIALTER
  Sesquialteral.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• SUPRADECOMPOUND
  More than decompound; divided many times.