Word Meanings - NIOBIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A later name of columbium. See Columbium.

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• 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.
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• LATERED
  Inclined to delay; dilatory. "When a man is too latered." Chaucer.
• LATERITIC
  consisting of, containing, or characterized by, laterite; as, lateritic formations.
• COLUMBIUM
  A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.
• 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
• LATERAD
  Toward the side; away from the mesial plane; -- opposed to mesiad.
• LATERITE
  An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.
• 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.
• HELIOLATER
  A worshiper of the sun.
• ELATEROMETER
  See ELATROMETER
• 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;
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• ASTROLATER
  A worshiper of the stars. Morley.
• DESOLATER
  One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede.
• BIBLIOLATER; BIBLIOLATRIST
  A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.
• QUADRILATERAL
  Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
• EQUILATERAL
  Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola , one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell , one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve,
• DILATER
  One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
• ICONOLATER
  One who worships images.