listening watch continuous receiver watch | a watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch |
filament | a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current |
bulk | the property possessed by a large mass |
bulk mass volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude, it is cheaper to buy it in bulk, he received a mass of correspondence, the volume of exports |
majority bulk | the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts, the main part, the majority of his customers prefer it, the bulk of the work is finished |
filament filum | a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
bulk mail | mail consisting of large numbers of identical items (circulars or advertisements) sent to individual addresses at less than stlass rates and paid for in one lot |
filament | the stalk of a stamen |
bulk modulus | the ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume |
progressive progressive tense imperfect imperfect tense continuous tense | a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going |
fibril filament strand | a very slender natural or synthetic fiber |
bulge bulk | cause to bulge or swell outwards |
bulk | stick out or up, The parcel bulked in the sack |
brood hover loom bulk large | hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing, The terrible vision brooded over her all day long |
continuous uninterrupted | continuing in time or space without interruption, a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light- James Jeans, a continuous bout of illness lasting six months, lived in continuous fear, a continuous row of warehouses, a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it, moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks |
continuous | of a function or curve, extending without break or irregularity |