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- English Word Aptitude Definition A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.
- English Word Aptitude Definition Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.
- English Word Aptitudinal Definition Suitable; fit.
- English Word Aptly Definition In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.
- English Word Aptness Definition Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.
- English Word Aptness Definition Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example.
- English Word Aptness Definition Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.
- English Word Aptness Definition Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust.
- English Word Aptote Definition A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.
- English Word Aptotic Definition Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.
- English Word Aptychus Definition A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.
- English Word Apus Definition A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.
- English Word Apyretic Definition Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.
- English Word Apyrexia Definition Alt. of Apyrexy
- English Word Apyrexial Definition Relating to apyrexy.
- English Word Apyrexy Definition The absence or intermission of fever.
- English Word Apyrous Definition Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.
- English Word Aqua Definition Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed.
- English Word Aqua fortis Definition Nitric acid.
- English Word Aquamarine Definition A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.