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  • English Word Paralyzed Definition of Paralyze
  • English Word Paralyzing Definition of Paralyze
  • English Word Param Definition A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C2H4N4); -- called also dicyandiamide.
  • English Word Paramagnetic Definition Magnetic, as opposed to diamagnetic.
  • English Word Paramagnetic Definition A paramagnetic substance.
  • English Word Paramagnetism Definition Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism.
  • English Word Paramaleic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid.
  • English Word Paramalic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric with malic acid.
  • English Word Paramastoid Definition Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
  • English Word Paramatta Definition A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino.
  • English Word Parament Definition Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural.
  • English Word Paramento Definition Ornament; decoration.
  • English Word Paramere Definition One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.
  • English Word Parameter Definition A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.
  • English Word Parameter Definition Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
  • English Word Parameter Definition The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
  • English Word Parametritis Definition Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus.
  • English Word Paramiographer Definition A collector or writer of proverbs.
  • English Word Paramitome Definition The fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell.
  • English Word Paramo Definition A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.
  • English Word Paramorph Definition A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite.
  • English Word Paramorphism Definition The change of one mineral species to another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without alteration of chemical composition.
  • English Word Paramorphous Definition Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.
  • English Word Paramos Definition of Paramo
  • English Word Paramount Definition Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty.
  • English Word Paramount Definition The highest or chief.
  • English Word Paramountly Definition In a paramount manner.
  • English Word Paramour Definition A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.
  • English Word Paramour Definition Love; gallantry.
  • English Word Paramour Definition Alt. of Paramours