Word Meanings - ANTILOGARITHM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine. -- An`ti*log`a*rith"mic, a.

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• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• DENOTE
  1. To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour. The better to denote her to the doctor. Shak. 2. To be the sign of; to betoken;
• LOGARITHMETIC; LOGARITHMETICAL
  See LOGARITHMIC
• LOGARITHM
  One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland , to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. Note: The relation of logarithms to common
• LOGARITHMETICALLY
  Logarithmically.
• THOUGHTFUL
  1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful
• COMPLEMENTARY
  Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles , two angles whose sum is 90°.
• COMPLEMENT
  A second quantity added to a given quantity to make equal to a third given quantity. 5. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser. (more info) 1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity
• CORRESPONDENCY
  See CLARKE
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• NUMBERLESS
  Innumerable; countless.
• CORRESPONDENT
  Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command.
• COSINE
  The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• MESOLOGARITHM
  A logarithm of the cosine or cotangent. Kepler. Hutton.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• NEW THOUGHT
  Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances,
• DISCORRESPONDENT
  Incongruous. W. Montagu.
• OUTNUMBER
  To exceed in number.
• ANTENUMBER
  A number that precedes another. Bacon.