matter | that which has mass and occupies space, physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it |
floating natation | the act of someone who floats on the water |
floating dock floating dry dock | dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised |
floating mine marine mine | an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it |
pontoon bridge bateau bridge floating bridge | a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons |
matter | (used with negation) having consequence, they were friends and it was no matter who won the games |
grey matter gray matter grey substance gray substance substantia grisea | greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers, forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons |
white matter substantia alba | whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths |
matter affair thing | a vaguely specified concern, several matters to attend to, it is none of your affair, things are going well |
matter | a problem, is anything the matter? |
topic subject issue matter | some situation or event that is thought about, he kept drifting off the topic, he had been thinking about the subject for several years, it is a matter for the police |
matter of fact | a matter that is an actual fact or is demonstrable as a fact |
conservation of mass conservation of matter law of conservation of mass law of conservation of matter | a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system |
matter | written works (especially in books or magazines), he always took some reading matter with him on the plane |
text textual matter | the words of something written, there were more than a thousand words of text, they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech, he wants to reconstruct the original text |
copy written matter | matter to be printed, exclusive of graphical materials |
front matter prelims | written matter preceding the main text of a book |
back matter end matter | written matter following the main text of a book |
floater floating policy | an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location |
message content subject matter substance | what a communication that is about something is about |
crux crux of the matter | the most important point |
question of fact matter of fact | a disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide |
question of law matter of law | a disputed legal contention that is generally left for a judge to decide |
floating-point notation floating-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix, in the floating-point representation system, . is represented as .- where - is the exponent |
artwork art graphics nontextual matter | photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication, the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book |
picture pictorial matter | illustrations used to decorate or explain a text, the dictionary had many pictures |
tabulation tabular matter | information set out in tabular form |
foregone conclusion matter of course | an inevitable ending |
swing voter floating voter | a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other |
floating-moss Salvinia rotundifolia Salvinia auriculata | free-floating aquatic ferns |
mosquito fern floating fern Carolina pond fern Azolla caroliniana | small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America, naturalized in western and southern Europe |
floating fern water sprite Ceratopteris pteridioides | aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariums |
floating fern Ceratopteris thalictroides | pantropical aquatic fern |
floating-point operation flop | an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers, this computer can perform a million flops per second |
floating-point number | a number represented in floating-point notation |
megaflop MFLOP million floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
teraflop trillion floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
state of matter state | (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container), the solid state of water is called ice |
dark matter | (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make uppercent of the universe, it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force |
particulate particulate matter | a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) |
fecal matter faecal matter feces faeces BM stool ordure dejection a | solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels |
waste waste material waste matter waste product | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted, they collect the waste once a week, much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers |
vegetable matter | matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant |
count matter weigh | have weight, have import, carry weight, It does not matter much |
matter to interest | be of importance or consequence, This matters to me! |
floating | borne up by or suspended in a liquid, the ship is still floating, floating logs, floating seaweed |
floating(a) | not definitely committed to a party or policy, floating voters |
matter-of-course | expected or depended upon as a natural or logical outcome |
floating(a) | (of a part of the body) not firmly connected, movable or out of normal position, floating ribs are not connected with the sternum, a floating kidney |
floating | inclined to move or be moved about, a floating crap game |