Word Meanings - SUBNORMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

Related words: (words related to SUBNORMAL)

• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• INTERCEPTIVE
  Intercepting or tending to intercept.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• 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.
• INTERCEPT
  To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. To take or seize by the way,
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
• INTERCEPTER
  One who, or that which, intercepts. Shak.
• CURVATE; CURVATED
  Bent in a regular form; curved.
• 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.
• ORDINATELY
  In an ordinate manner; orderly. Chaucer. Skelton.
• CURVILINEARITY
  The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
• CURVATIVE
  Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.
• CURVIDENTATE
  Having curved teeth.
• CURVAL; CURVANT
  Bowed; bent; curved.
• CURVIROSTRAL
  Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
• CURVILINEAD
  An instrument for drawing curved lines.
• NORMALIZATION
  Reduction to a standard or normal state.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• INCOORDINATE; INCOOERDINATE
  Not coördinate.
• SUBNORMAL
  That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
• RECURVATE
  Recurved.
• ABNORMAL
  Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
• SCURVILY
  In a scurvy manner.
• RECURVITY
  Recurvation.