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Word Meanings - ADIABATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not giving out or receiving heat. -- Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly, adv. Adiabatic line or curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.

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  • RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
    An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
  • EXHIBITION
    The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
  • FLUID
    A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves. Note: Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as species. Water, air, and steam are fluids. By analogy, the term is sometimes applied to electricity and magnetism,
  • VOLUMENOMETRY
    The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
  • VOLUMENOMETER
    An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
  • EXHIBITIONER
    One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
  • RECEIVE
    To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
  • GIVES
    Fetters.
  • EXHIBIT
    A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence. (more info) 1. Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.
  • VOLUMETRIC
    Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetric analysis , that system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the
  • GIVING
    1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
  • VOLUMETER
    An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • CURVE
    Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
  • PRESSURE WIRES
    Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
  • ADIABATIC
    Not giving out or receiving heat. -- Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly, adv. Adiabatic line or curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.
  • FLUIDAL
    Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
  • EXHIBITOR
    One who exhibits.
  • FLUIDRACHM
    See S
  • TERGIVERSATOR
    One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
  • THANKSGIVING
    1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
  • MISRECEIVE
    To receive wrongly.
  • ALMSGIVING
    The giving of alms.
  • MISGIVING
    Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
  • FUNGIVOROUS
    Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
  • RECURVE
    To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
  • REGIVE
    To give again; to give back.
  • FORGIVER
    One who forgives. Johnson.
  • OGIVE
    The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.

 

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