Alabama period () A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
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. |
Entering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enter |
Erecto-patent (a.) Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading. |
Erecto-patent (a.) Standing partially spread and erect |
Hamilton period () A subdivision of the Devonian system of America |
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. |
Opposition (n.) The act of opposing |
Opposition (n.) The state of being placed over against |
Opposition (n.) Repugnance |
Opposition (n.) That which opposes |
Opposition (n.) The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it |
Opposition (n.) The relation between two propositions when, having the same subject and predicate, they differ in quantity, or in quality, or in both |
Patent (a.) Open |
Patent (a.) Open to public perusal |
Patent (a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent |
Patent (a.) Spreading |
Patent (a.) A letter patent, or letters patent |
Patent (a.) A writing securing to an invention. |
Patent (a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands. |
Patent (a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document |
Patent (v. t.) To grant by patent |
Patent-hammered (a.) Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together. |
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. |
Trenton period () A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America |
entrance entering entry ingress incoming | the act of entering, she made a grand entrance |
resistance opposition | the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with, he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens, despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead |
patent infringement | violation of the rights secured by a patent |
housebreaking break-in breaking and entering | trespassing for an unlawful purpose, illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent |
confrontation opposition | the act of hostile groups opposing each other, the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions, the invaders encountered stiff opposition |
course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
patent log screw log taffrail log | a cigar-shaped log with rotary fins that measure the ship's speed |
patent medicine | medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription |
period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
patent right | the right granted by a patent, especially the exclusive right to an invention |
patent ductus arteriosus | a ductus arteriosus that failed to close at birth, may require surgical correction |
patent system | a legal system for protecting the rights of inventors |
patent law | that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing patents |
patent patent of invention | a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention |
patent application | an application for sole rights to an invention |
patent letters patent | an official document granting a right or privilege |
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 |
entrance entering | a movement into or inward |
Patent and Trademark Office Database Patent Office | the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones |
opposition | a body of people united in opposing something |
Opposition | the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected, Her Majesty's loyal opposition |
enemy foe foeman opposition | an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force), a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies |
opposition opponent opposite | a contestant that you are matched against |
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 |
opposition | a direction opposite to another |
orthogonality perpendicularity orthogonal opposition | the relation of opposition between things at right angles |
antipodal antipodal opposition diametrical opposition | the relation of opposition along a diameter |
opposition oppositeness | the relation between opposed entities |
mutual opposition polarity | a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies, he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil |
gradable opposition | an opposition that is capable of being graded |
polar opposition | an opposition that can be graded between two extremes or poles |
ungradable opposition | an opposition that has no intermediate grade, either one or the other |
patent leather | leather with a hard glossy surface |
time period period of time period | an amount of time, a time period ofyears, hastened the period of time of his recovery, Picasso's blue period |
trial period test period | a period of time during which someone or something is tested |
Quaternary Quaternary period Age of Man | last million years |
Tertiary Tertiary period | from million to million years ago |
Cretaceous Cretaceous period | from million to million years ago, end of the age of reptiles, appearance of modern insects and flowering plants |
Jurassic Jurassic period | frommillion to million years ago, dinosaurs, conifers |
Triassic Triassic period | frommillion tomillion years ago, dinosaurs, marine reptiles, volcanic activity |
Permian Permian period | frommillion tomillion years ago, reptiles |
Carboniferous Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago |
Pennsylvanian Pennsylvanian period Upper Carboniferous Upper Carboniferous period | frommillion tomillion years ago, warm climate, swampy land |
Mississippian Missippian period Lower Carboniferous Lower Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago, increase of land areas, primitive ammonites, winged insects |
Devonian Devonian period Age of Fishes | frommillion to million years ago, preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites |
Silurian Silurian period | from million tomillion years ago, first air-breathing animals |
Ordovician Ordovician period | from million to million years ago, conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds |
Cambrian Cambrian period | from million to about million years ago, marine invertebrates |
Precambrian Precambrian eon Precambrian aeon Precambrian period | the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon, from about , million years ago until million years ago |
period | the end or completion of something, death put a period to his endeavors, a change soon put a period to my tranquility |