Word Meanings - METASTERNUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum.

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• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• ELEMENTATION
  Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• ELEMENTOID
  Resembling an element.
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• POSTERIORITY
  The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
• PROCESS PLATE
  A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.
• ELEMENTAR
  Elementary. Skelton.
• PROCESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession. The processional services became more frequent. Milman.
• ELEMENTARINESS
  The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
• PROCESSIONER
  1. One who takes part in a procession. 2. A manual of processions; a processional. Fuller.
• ENSIFORM
  Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf. Ensiform cartilage, and Ensiform process. See Xiphisternum.
• POSTERIORS
  The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.
• PROCESS
  Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis. (more info) 1. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance. "Long process of time." Milton. The thoughts of men are widened with the
• EPISTERNUM
  One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• PRESTERNUM
  The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.
• TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
  To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
• FLOTATION PROCESS
  A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the
• WELDON'S PROCESS
  A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.
• THOMAS PROCESS
  See ABOVE
• PROSTERNUM
  The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in