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- English Word Amove Definition To dismiss from an office or station.
- English Word Amove Definition To move or be moved; to excite.
- English Word Ampelite Definition An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
- English Word Ampere Definition Alt. of Ampere
- English Word Ampere Definition The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere.
- English Word Amperemeter Definition Alt. of Amperometer
- English Word Amperometer Definition An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in amperes.
- English Word Ampersand Definition A word used to describe the character /, /, or &.
- English Word Amphi- Definition A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.
- English Word Amphiarthrodial Definition Characterized by amphiarthrosis.
- English Word Amphiarthrosis Definition A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.
- English Word Amphiaster Definition The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.
- English Word Amphibia Definition One of the classes of vertebrates.
- English Word Amphibia Definition of Amphibium
- English Word Amphibial Definition Amphibian.
- English Word Amphibian Definition Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.
- English Word Amphibian Definition One of the Amphibia.
- English Word Amphibiological Definition Pertaining to amphibiology.
- English Word Amphibiology Definition A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.
- English Word Amphibiotica Definition A division of insects having aquatic larvae.
- English Word Amphibious Definition Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.
- English Word Amphibious Definition Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water.
- English Word Amphibious Definition Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures.
- English Word Amphibiously Definition Like an amphibious being.
- English Word Amphibium Definition An amphibian.
- English Word Amphibiums Definition of Amphibium
- English Word Amphiblastic Definition Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.
- English Word Amphibole Definition A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.
- English Word Amphibolic Definition Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.
- English Word Amphibolic Definition Of or resembling the mineral amphibole.