Word Meanings - MICROBIOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The study of minute organisms, or microbes, as the bacteria. -- Mi`cro*bi`o*log"ic*al , a. -- Mi`cro*bi*ol"o*gist , n.

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• BACTERIAL
  Of or pertaining to bacteria.
• STUDY
  A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture. (more
• BACTERIA
  See BACTERIUM
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• MINUTENESS
  The quality of being minute.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• SPIROBACTERIA
  See MICROBACTERIA
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• UNDERSTUDY
  To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
• PSEUDOBACTERIA
  Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria. Note: The globules which divide and develop in form of chains are organized beings; when this
• MICROBACTERIA
  In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria. Note: In this classification bacteria are divided into four tribes: 1. Spherobacteria, or spherical bacteria, as the genus Micrococcus. 2. Microbacteria, or bacteria in the form
• DIMINUTE
  Small; diminished; diminutive. Jer. Taylor.
• SPHEROBACTERIA
  See MICROBACTERIA
• DIMINUTELY
  Diminutively.
• DESMOBACTERIA
  See MICROBACTERIA
• ANTIBACTERIAL
  Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases. Opposed to the bacterial theory of disease.