Word Meanings - ORRERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.

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• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• SOLARIZE
  To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• 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.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• SOLARY
  Solar. Sir T. Browne.
• MOVIE
  A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• SOLARIZATION
  Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• 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.
• WHEELWORK
  A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
• MOVING PICTURE
  A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision,
• PERIODICALLY
  In a periodical manner.
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• MOVE
  To transfer from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• ANTISOLAR
  Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.
• LUNISOLAR
  Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. Lunisolar precession , that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year,
• THERMOVOLTAIC
  Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.