Alabama period
() A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
By-stroke
(n.) An accidental or a slyly given stroke. |
Catskill period
() The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Champlain period
() A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period |
Chemung period
() A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Dead-stroke
(a.) Making a stroke without recoil |
Hamilton period
() A subdivision of the Devonian system of America |
Induction
(n.) The act or process of inducting or bringing in |
Induction
(n.) An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play |
Induction
(n.) The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal |
Induction
(n.) The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies |
Induction
(n.) A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one |
Induction
(n.) The property by which one body, having electrical or magnetic polarity, causes or induces it in another body without direct contact |
Intake
(n.) The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit |
Intake
(n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. |
Intake
(n.) The quantity taken in |
Niagara period
() A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology. |
Period
(n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies |
Period
(n.) A stated and recurring interval of time |
Period
(n.) One of the great divisions of geological time |
Period
(n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act |
Period
(n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another |
Period
(n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. |
Period
(n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals. |
Period
(n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. |
Period
(n.) A complete musical sentence. |
Period
(v. t.) To put an end to. |
Period
(v. i.) To come to a period |
Salina period
() The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology. |
Stroke
(imp.) Struck. |
Stroke
(v. t.) The act of striking |
Stroke
(v. t.) The result of effect of a striking |
Stroke
(v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour. |
Stroke
(v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something |
Stroke
(v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing |
Stroke
(v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition |
Stroke
(v. t.) A sudden attack of disease |
Stroke
(v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart. |
Stroke
(v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished |
Stroke
(v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke |
Stroke
(v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided |
Stroke
(v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar |
Stroke
(v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished |
Stroke
(v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion |
Stroke
(v. t.) Power |
Stroke
(v. t.) Appetite. |
Stroke
(v. t.) To strike. |
Stroke
(v. t.) To rib gently in one direction |
Stroke
(v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing. |
Stroke
(v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to. |
| stroke stroking | a light touch with the hands |
trigger
induction initiation | an act that sets in motion some course of events |
| induction of labor | (obstetrics) inducing the childbirth process artificially by administering oxytocin or by puncturing the amniotic sac |
| induction | the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time), the induction of an anesthetic state |
| stroke | a single complete movement |
keystroke
key stroke | the stroke of a key, one depression of a key on a keyboard, the number of keystrokes was used as a measure of work |
medal play
stroke play | golf scoring by total strokes taken |
stroke
shot | (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand, it took two strokes to get out of the bunker, a good shot requires good balance and tempo, he left me an almost impossible shot |
tennis stroke
tennis shot | the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket |
backhand
backhand stroke
backhand shot | a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke |
forehand
forehand stroke
forehand shot | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) |
| ground stroke | a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once |
| stroke | any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing |
| swimming stroke | a method of moving the arms and legs to push against the water and propel the swimmer forward |
butterfly
butterfly stroke | a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down |
golf stroke
golf shot
swing | the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
inhalation
inspiration
aspiration
intake breathing in | the act of inhaling, the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing |
consumption ingestion
intake
uptake | the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) |
course session
class period
recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
| air-intake | a duct that admits air to be mixed with fuel |
betatron
induction accelerator | accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux |
four-stroke engine
four-stroke internalombustion engine | an internalombustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke, work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke |
| induction coil | a coil for producing a high voltage from a low-voltage source |
intake
inlet | an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container |
| intake manifold | a manifold consisting of a pipe to carry fuel to each cylinder in an internalombustion engine |
| intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
neon lamp
neon induction lamp
neon tube | a lamp consisting of a small gas-discharge tube containing neon at low pressure, luminescence is produced by the action of currents at high frequencies that are wrapped a few turns around the tube |
| period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
magnetic field strength
magnetic intensity
magnetic induction
magnetic flux density | the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow |
generalization generalisation induction
inductive reasoning | reasoning from detailed facts to general principles |
| evocation induction elicitation | stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors, the elicitation of his testimony was not easy |
| stroke | a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush, she applied the paint in careful strokes |
| hair stroke | a very fine line in writing or printing |
period
point
full stop
stop full point | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations, in England they call a period a stop |
solidus
slash
virgule
diagonal
stroke
separatrix | a punctuation mark (
) used to separate related items of information |
accident
stroke fortuity
chance event | anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause, winning the lottery was a happy accident, the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck, it was due to an accident or fortuity |
throw
stroke
cam stroke | the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam |
| stroke | a light touch |
initiation
induction
installation | a formal entry into an organization or position or office, his initiation into the club, he was ordered to report for induction into the army, he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame |
| stroke | the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew |
induction
inductance | an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current |
| mutual induction | generation of electromotive forces in each other by two adjacent circuits |
| self-induction | generation of an electromotive force (EMF) in a circuit by changing the current in that circuit, usually measured in henries |
| induction heating | the heating of a conducting material caused by an electric current induced in it |
magnetization
magnetisation
magnetic induction | the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) |
menstruation
menses
menstruum
catamenia
period
flow | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause, the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation, a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates, the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle |
coefficient of mutual induction
mutual inductance | a measure of the induction between two circuits, the ratio of the electromotive force in a circuit to the corresponding change of current in a neighboring circuit, usually measured in henries |
coefficient of self induction
self-inductance | the ratio of the electromotive force produced in a circuit by self-induction to the rate of change of current producing it, expressed in henries |
| stroke | (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club, Nicklaus won by three strokes |
stroke
apoplexy
cerebrovascular accident
CVA | a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain |