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- English Word Thermoscope Definition An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.
- English Word Thermoscopic Definition Of or pertaining to the thermoscope; made by means of the thermoscope; as, thermoscopic observations.
- English Word Thermostat Definition A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.
- English Word Thermostatic Definition Of or pertaining to the thermostat; made or effected by means of the thermostat.
- English Word Thermosystaltic Definition Influenced in its contraction by heat or cold; -- said of a muscle.
- English Word Thermotaxic Definition Pertaining to, or connected with, the regulation of temperature in the animal body; as, the thermotaxic nervous system.
- English Word Thermotension Definition A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted.
- English Word Thermotic Definition Alt. of Thermotical
- English Word Thermotical Definition Of or pertaining to heat; produced by heat; as, thermotical phenomena.
- English Word Thermotics Definition The science of heat.
- English Word Thermotropic Definition Manifesting thermotropism.
- English Word Thermotropism Definition The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.
- English Word Thermotype Definition A picture (as of a slice of wood) obtained by first wetting the object slightly with hydrochloric or dilute sulphuric acid, then taking an impression with a press, and next strongly heating this impression.
- English Word Thermotypy Definition The art or process of obtaining thermotypes.
- English Word Thermovoltaic Definition Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action.
- English Word Theromorpha Definition See Theriodonta.
- English Word Theropoda Definition An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies.
- English Word Thesauri Definition of Thesaurus
- English Word Thesaurus Definition A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
- English Word These Definition The plural of this. See This.
- English Word These Definition of This
- English Word Theses Definition of Thesis
- English Word Thesicle Definition A little or subordinate thesis; a proposition.
- English Word Thesis Definition A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
- English Word Thesis Definition Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.
- English Word Thesis Definition An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- English Word Thesis Definition The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.
- English Word Thesis Definition The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
- English Word Thesis Definition The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.
- English Word Thesmothete Definition A lawgiver; a legislator; one of the six junior archons at Athens.