MPage 134
- English Word Metalloid Definition Now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids.
- English Word Metalloid Definition Having the appearance of a metal.
- English Word Metalloid Definition Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.
- English Word Metalloidal Definition Metalloid.
- English Word Metallorganic Definition Metalorganic.
- English Word Metallotherapy Definition Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.
- English Word Metallurgic Definition Alt. of Metallurgical
- English Word Metallurgical Definition Of or pertaining to metallurgy.
- English Word Metallurgist Definition One who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy.
- English Word Metallurgy Definition The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.
- English Word Metalman Definition A worker in metals.
- English Word Metalmen Definition of Metalman
- English Word Metalogical Definition Beyond the scope or province of logic.
- English Word Metalorganic Definition Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.
- English Word Metamer Definition Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.
- English Word Metamere Definition One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.
- English Word Metameric Definition Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.
- English Word Metameric Definition Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation.
- English Word Metamerically Definition In a metameric manner.
- English Word Metamerism Definition The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.
- English Word Metamerism Definition The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds.
- English Word Metamorphic Definition Subject to change; changeable; variable.
- English Word Metamorphic Definition Causing a change of structure.
- English Word Metamorphic Definition Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.
- English Word Metamorphism Definition The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble.
- English Word Metamorphist Definition One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended.
- English Word Metamorphize Definition To metamorphose.
- English Word Metamorphose Definition To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
- English Word Metamorphose Definition Same as Metamorphosis.
- English Word Metamorphosed Definition of Metamorphose