Word Meanings - ACTINOPHONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.

Related words: (words related to ACTINOPHONIC)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• PHENOMENALISM
  That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• PHENOMENAL
  Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• ACTINOPHONIC
  Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ULTRAVIOLET
  Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- said of rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of the spectrum.
• SOUND
  1. To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn. A bagpipe well could he play and soun . Chaucer. 2. To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument. 3. To order, direct, indicate,
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• DIACTINIC
  Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• ENCAUSTIC
  Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which