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Word Meanings - ATOMICITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.

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  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • LATERAN
    The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
  • LATERAL
    Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
  • LATERALLY
    By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
  • LATER
    A brick or tile. Knight.
  • VALENCE
    The degree of combining power of an atom as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom
  • ATOMICIAN
    An atomist.
  • LATERIFOLIOUS
    Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
  • ATOMICISM
    Atomism.
  • LATERALITY
    The state or condition of being lateral.
  • LATERED
    Inclined to delay; dilatory. "When a man is too latered." Chaucer.
  • ATTRACTION
    An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting
  • NUMBERLESS
    Innumerable; countless.
  • ATOMICITY
    Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.
  • EQUIVALENCE
    1. The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions. 2. Equal power or force; equivalent amount. The quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen
  • DEGREE
    A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
  • LATERITIC
    consisting of, containing, or characterized by, laterite; as, lateritic formations.
  • NUMBER
    The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of
  • NUMBERS
    of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
  • LATERITIOUS
    Like bricks; of the color of red bricks. Lateritious sediment , a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of uric acid or urates with some coloring
  • DIATOMIC
    Containing two atoms. Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.
  • SLATER
    One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
  • INFLATER
    One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
  • PENTATOMIC
    Having five atoms in the molecule. Having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution.
  • TETRAVALENCE
    The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.
  • OUTNUMBER
    To exceed in number.
  • HELIOLATER
    A worshiper of the sun.
  • ELATEROMETER
    See ELATROMETER
  • MULTIVALENCE
    Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical.
  • COLLATERALLY
    1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
  • ANATOMIC; ANATOMICAL
    Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.

 

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