fine-tooth comb
fine-toothed comb | a method of examining in minute detail, he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes |
art
fine art | the products of human creativity, works of art collectively, an art exhibition, a fine collection of art |
defensive structure
defense
defence | a structure used to defend against attack, the artillery battered down the defenses |
fine-tooth comb
fine-toothed comb | a comb with teeth set close together |
megalith
megalithic structure | memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) |
structure
construction | a thing constructed, a complex entity constructed of many parts, the structure consisted of a series of arches, she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons |
| supporting structure | a structure that serves to support something |
| structure | the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts, artists must study the structure of the human body, the structure of the benzene molecule |
body
organic structure
physical structure | the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being), he felt as if his whole body were on fire |
structure
anatomical structure
complex body part
bodily structure
body structure | a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing, he has good bone structure |
tube
tube-shaped structure | (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure |
| vascular structure | a structure composed of or provided with blood vessels |
muscular structure
musculature
muscle system | the muscular system of an organism |
| neural structure | a structure that is part of the nervous system |
| cartilaginous structure | body structure given shape by cartilage |
horny structure
unguis | any rigid body structure composed primarily of keratin |
| skeletal structure | any structure created by the skeleton of an organism |
| structure | the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations, his lectures have no structure |
| data structure | (computer science) the organization of data (and its storage allocations in a computer) |
hierarchical structure
hierarchical data structure | a structure of data having several levels arranged in a treelike structure |
constant
constant quantity
invariable | a quantity that does not vary |
law of constant proportion
law of definite proportions | (chemistry) law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight |
fine arts
beaux arts | the study and creation of visual works of art |
syntax sentence structure
phrase structure | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |
morphology sound structure
syllable structure
word structure | the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
small print
fine print | material printed in small type, he needed his glasses in order to read the fine print |
Master of Fine Arts
MFA | a master's degree in fine arts |
| Doctor of Fine Arts | an honorary degree in fine arts |
| fine print small print | the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type, don't sign a contract without reading the fine print |
typewriter font
constant-width font
fixed-width font
monospaced font | a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) |
hierarchy power structure
pecking order | the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body |
| class structure | the organization of classes within a society |
social organization
social organisation
social structure
social system
structure | the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships, the social organization of England and America is very different, sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family |
Lambert
Constant Lambert
Leonard Constant Lambert | English composer and conductor (-) |
| fine spray | precipitation in very small drops |
| fine structure | the presence of groups of closely spaced spectrum lines observed in the atomic spectrum of certain elements, the fine structure results from slightly different energy levels |
| reproductive structure | the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction |
leather flower vase-fine
vase vine
Clematis viorna | scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
bell heather heather bell
fine-leaved heath
Erica cinerea | common low European shrub with purpleed flowers |
plant part
plant structure | any part of a plant or fungus |
fine
mulct
amercement | money extracted as a penalty |
| library fine | fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned |
| constant | a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context, the velocity of light is a constant |
| Boltzmann's constant | constant used in the calculation of the ideal gas constant |
| cosmological constant | an arbitrary constant in the equations of general relativity theory |
| equilibrium constant | (chemistry) the ratio of concentrations when equilibrium is reached in a reversible reaction (when the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction) |
| dissociation constant | the equilibrium constant for a reversible dissociation |
gas constant
universal gas constant
R | (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume R times temperature, equal to . joules per kelvin per mole |
gravitational constant
universal gravitational constant
constant of gravitation
G | (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation |
Hubble's constant
Hubble constant
Hubble's parameter
Hubble parameter | (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer, the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today |