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- English Word Diluting Definition of Dilute
- English Word Dilution Definition The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.
- English Word Diluvia Definition of Diluvium
- English Word Diluvial Definition Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.
- English Word Diluvial Definition Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.
- English Word Diluvialist Definition One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.
- English Word Diluvian Definition Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin.
- English Word Diluviate Definition To run as a flood.
- English Word Diluvium Definition A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.
- English Word Diluviums Definition of Diluvium
- English Word Dim Definition Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
- English Word Dim Definition Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.
- English Word Dim Definition To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.
- English Word Dim Definition To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
- English Word Dim Definition To grow dim.
- English Word Dim-sighted Definition Having dim sight; lacking perception.
- English Word Dimble Definition A bower; a dingle.
- English Word Dime Definition A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
- English Word Dimension Definition Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom.
- English Word Dimension Definition Extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions.
- English Word Dimension Definition The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension.
- English Word Dimension Definition A literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree.
- English Word Dimension Definition The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities.
- English Word Dimensional Definition Pertaining to dimension.
- English Word Dimensioned Definition Having dimensions.
- English Word Dimensionless Definition Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent.
- English Word Dimensity Definition Dimension.
- English Word Dimensive Definition Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits.
- English Word Dimera Definition A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.
- English Word Dimera Definition A division of the Hemiptera, including the aphids.