Word Meanings - ORBITAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to an orbit. "Orbital revolution." J. D. Forbes. Orbital index , in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.
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- RATIOCINATE
To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument. - INDEXICAL
Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index. - RATIONALIZATION
The act or process of rationalizing. - RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv. - RATIOCINATION
The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning. - EQUALIZER
One who, or that which, equalizes anything. - ORBITARY
Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird. - STANDARD
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend, - RATION
1. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence. Note: Officers have several rations, the number varying according to their rank or the number of their attendants. 2. Hence, - EQUALIZE
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely - VERTICAL
1. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor. 2. Perpendicular to the plane - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - RATIONALLY
In a rational manner. - SKULLFISH
A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old. - EQUALITY
Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under - RATIONAL
Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulæ. See under Formula. Rational horizon. See Horizon, 2 . -- Rational quantity , one that can be expressed without the use of a radical sign, or - TRANSVERSELY
In a transverse manner. - VERTICALNESS
Quality or state of being vertical. - ORBIT
The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon. 2. An orb or ball. Roll the lucid orbit of an eye. Young. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - MIGRATION
The act of migrating. - COMMISERATION
The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy. - PREORBITAL
a. Situated in front or the orbit. - DEDECORATION
Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey. - INCARCERATION
1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. - EXULCERATION
1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker. - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker. - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - IRRATIONAL
Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of - REVERBERATION
The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame - ELABORATION
The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, - REMONSTRATION
The act of remonstrating; remonstrance. Todd. - FISSURATION
The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured. - EVAPORATION
See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2. - OBDURATION
A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. - SUPERTUBERATION
The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.