Brequet chain
() A watch-guard. |
Chain
(n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. |
Chain
(n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain |
Chain
(n.) A series of things linked together |
Chain
(n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land. |
Chain
(n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds |
Chain
(n.) The warp threads of a web. |
Chain
(v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain |
Chain
(v. t.) To keep in slavery |
Chain
(v. t.) To unite closely and strongly. |
Chain
(v. t.) To measure with the chain. |
Chain
(v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor. |
Chain pump
() A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge. |
Chain stitch
() An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain |
Chain stitch
() A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work |
Chain wheel
() A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel. |
Chain wheel
() An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water. |
Decay
(v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution |
Decay
(v. t.) To cause to decay |
Decay
(v. t.) To destroy. |
Decay
(n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection |
Decay
(n.) Destruction |
Decay
(n.) Cause of decay. |
Disintegration
(n.) The process by which anything is disintegrated |
Disintegration
(n.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc. |
Engineering
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engineer |
Engineering
(n.) Originally, the art of managing engines |
Family
(v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager |
Family
(v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. |
Family
(v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor |
Family
(v. t.) Course of descent |
Family
(v. t.) Honorable descent |
Family
(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals |
Family
(v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order |
Gunter's chain
() The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale. |
Membered
(a.) Having limbs |
Membered
(a.) Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body |
Nuclear
(a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus |
Series
(n.) A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation |
Series
(n.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. |
Series
(n.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series |
Sheet chain
() A chain sheet cable. |
Top-chain
(n.) A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away. |
Transformation
(n.) The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed |
Transformation
(n.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc. |
Transformation
(n.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation |
Transformation
(n.) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another |
Transformation
(n.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like |
Transformation
(n.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value. |
transformation
translation | the act of changing in form or shape or appearance, a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface |
| transformation | (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA |
family practice
family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
somatic cell nuclear transplantation
somatic cell nuclear transfer
SCNT
nuclear transplantation | moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another |
| family therapy | any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole |
| nuclear terrorism | the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials, assaults on nuclear power plants is one form of nuclear terrorism |
| natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
birth control
birth prevention
family planning | limiting the number of children born |
basal body temperature method of family planning
basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning
ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
technology
engineering | the practical application of science to commerce or industry |
| aeronautical engineering | the activity of designing and constructing aircraft |
automotive technology
automotive engineering | the activity of designing and constructing automobiles |
| chemical engineering | the activity of applying chemistry to the solution of practical problems |
| radioactive dating | measurement of the amount of radioactive material (usually carbon ) that an object contains, can be used to estimate the age of the object |
| nuclear deterrence | the military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consequence, when two nations both resort to nuclear deterrence the consequence could be mutual destruction |
| bacteria family | a family of bacteria |
Rhizobiaceae
family Rhizobiaceae | a small family of rod-shaped bacteria |
Bacillaceae
family Bacillaceae | typically rod-shaped usually Gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores |
Myxophyceae
family Myxophyceae
Schizophyceae
family Schizophyceae | former terms for Cyanophyceae |
Nostocaceae
family Nostocaceae | blue-green algae |
Oscillatoriaceae
family Oscillatoriaceae | blue green algae |
Pseudomonodaceae
family Pseudomonodaceae | rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria, include important plant and animal pathogens |
Athiorhodaceae
family Athiorhodaceae | small motile sulphur bacteria |
Nitrobacteriaceae
family Nitrobacteriaceae | usually rod-shaped bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrites: nitrobacteria |
Thiobacteriaceae
family Thiobacteriaceae | free-living coccoid to rod-shaped bacteria that derive energy from oxidizing sulfur or sulfur compounds |
Spirillaceae
family Spirillaceae | rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria |
Bacteroidaceae
family Bacteroidaceae | family of bacteria living usually in the alimentary canal or on mucous surfaces of warm-blooded animals, sometimes associated with acute infective processes |
Corynebacteriaceae
family Corynebacteriaceae | a large family of mostly Gram-positive and aerobic and nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Enterobacteriaceae
family Enterobacteriaceae | a large family of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Rickettsiaceae
family Rickettsiaceae | microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates |
Chlamydiaceae
family Chlamydiaceae | Gram-negative parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates |
Mycoplasmataceae
family Mycoplasmataceae | pleomorphic Gram-negative nonmotile microorganism similar to both viruses and bacteria, parasitic in mammals |
Actinomycetaceae
family Actinomycetaceae | filamentous anaerobic bacteria |
Streptomycetaceae
family Streptomycetaceae | higher bacteria typically aerobic soil saprophytes |
Mycobacteriaceae
family Mycobacteriaceae | a family of bacteria |
Polyangiaceae
family Polyangiaceae
Myxobacteriaceae
family Myxobacteriaceae | bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung |
Micrococcaceae
family Micrococcaceae | spherical or elliptical usually aerobic eubacteria that produce yellow or orange or red pigment, includes toxin-producing forms as well as harmless commensals and saprophytes |
Lactobacillaceae
family Lactobacillaceae
Lactobacteriaceae
family Lactobacteriaceae | lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens, bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid |
Spirochaetaceae
family Spirochaetaceae | large coarsely spiral bacteria, free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters |
Treponemataceae
family Treponemataceae | small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic |
| protoctist family | any of the families of Protoctista |
Endamoebidae
family Endamoebidae | a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract |
Globigerinidae
family Globigerinidae | a family of protoctists |
Nummulitidae
family Nummulitidae | a family of fossil protoctists |
Arcellidae
family Arcellidae | soil and freshwater protozoa, cosmopolitan in distribution |
Tribonemaceae
family Tribonemaceae | simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae |
Laminariaceae
family Laminariaceae | large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters |
Fucaceae
family Fucaceae | small family of brown algae: gulfweeds, rockweeds |
Euglenaceae
family Euglenaceae | considered green algae |