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Word Meanings - SUPERFLUITANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Floating above or on the surface. Sir T. Browne. -- Su`per*flu"i*tance, n.

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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.
  • FLOATATION
    See FLOTATION
  • ABOVEBOARD
    Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
  • ABOVESAID
    Mentioned or recited before.
  • FLOATABLE
    That may be floated.
  • ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
    Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
  • 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
  • FLOATY
    Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • FLOATINGLY
    In a floating manner.
  • FLOATAGE
    See FLOTAGE
  • ABOVEDECK
    On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
  • 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;
  • FLOATING CHARGE; FLOATING LIEN
    A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.
  • FLOATING
    1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as,
  • FLOATER
    1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
  • SURFACER
    A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
  • FLOAT
    A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. Knight. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. Bacon. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. Mortimer.
  • ABOVE-CITED
    Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
  • ABOVE
    1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in
  • INSTANCE
    1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. The instances that second marriage
  • UNRESISTANCE
    Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
  • CONCOMITANCE; CONCOMITANCY
    The doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by comunication in one kind only. (more info) 1. The state of accompanying; accompaniment. The secondary
  • ASSISTANCE
    1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
  • ACQUAINTANCE
    1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
  • POTANCE
    The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.
  • INACQUAINTANCE
    Want of acquaintance. Good.
  • INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
    The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
  • PREACQUAINTANCE
    Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
  • ADMITTANCE
    The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
  • SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
    The substance of the medullary sheath.
  • INDUCTANCE
    Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction. The unit of inductance is the henry.
  • REFLOAT
    Reflux; ebb. Bacon.
  • SORTANCE
    Suitableness; agreement. hak.
  • DISINHERITANCE
    The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.
  • DOUBLE-SURFACED
    Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aƫroplane wings or aƫrocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.
  • DISTANCE
    A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being

 

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