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- English Word Uran-ochre Definition A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure.
- English Word Uran-utan Definition The orang-utang
- English Word Uranate Definition A salt of uranic acid.
- English Word Urania Definition One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
- English Word Urania Definition A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
- English Word Uranian Definition Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.
- English Word Uranic Definition Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
- English Word Uranic Definition Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.
- English Word Uranin Definition An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.
- English Word Uraninite Definition A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.
- English Word Uraniscoplasty Definition The process of forming an artificial palate.
- English Word Uraniscoraphy Definition Alt. of Uraniscorrhaphy
- English Word Uraniscorrhaphy Definition Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.
- English Word Uranite Definition A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.
- English Word Uranitic Definition Of or pertaining to uranium; containing uranium.
- English Word Uranium Definition An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.
- English Word Uranographic Definition Alt. of Uranographical
- English Word Uranographical Definition Of or pertaining to uranography; as, an uranographic treatise.
- English Word Uranographist Definition One practiced in uranography.
- English Word Uranography Definition A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
- English Word Uranolite Definition A meteorite or aerolite.
- English Word Uranology Definition A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.
- English Word Uranometria Definition A uranometry.
- English Word Uranometry Definition A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.
- English Word Uranoplasty Definition The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
- English Word Uranoscopy Definition Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies.
- English Word Uranoso- Definition A combining form (also used adjectively) from uranium; -- used in naming certain complex compounds; as in uranoso-uranic oxide, uranoso-uranic sulphate.
- English Word Uranous Definition Pertaining to, or containing, uranium; designating those compounds in which uranium has a lower valence as contrasted with the uranic compounds.
- English Word Uranus Definition The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.
- English Word Uranus Definition One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.