| multiple voting | the act of voting in more than one place by the same person at the same election (illegal in U.S.) |
clasp
clench
clutch
clutches
grasp
grip
hold | the act of grasping, he released his clasp on my arm, he has a strong grip for an old man, she kept a firm hold on the railing |
blastoderm
germinal disc
blastodisc
germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
audio CD
audio compact disc | compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music) |
CD-R
compact disc recordable
CD-WO
compact disc write-once | a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only memory |
CD-ROM
compact disc read-only memory | a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system), a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user |
| clutch | a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism, this year's model has an improved clutch |
| clutch clutch pedal | a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism, he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other |
clutch bag
clutch | a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand |
compact disk
compact disc
CD | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record, played back by a laser |
cone clutch
cone friction clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are cone-shaped |
disk
disc | a flat circular plate |
disk brake
disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
| disk clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks |
disk drive
disc drive
hard drive
Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
disk harrow
disc harrow | a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle |
| friction clutch | a clutch in which one part turns the other by the friction between them |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
magnetic disk
magnetic disc
disk disc | (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored |
optical disk
optical disc | a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface, is read with a laser that scans the surface |
phonograph record
phonograph recording
record
disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
slip clutch
slip friction clutch | a friction clutch that will slip when the torque is too great |
intervertebral disc
intervertebral disk | a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two) |
blind spot
optic disc
optic disk | the point where the optic nerve enters the retina, not sensitive to light |
| multiple | the product of a quantity by an integer, is a multiple of |
lowest common multiple
least common multiple
lcm | the smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers, the least common multiple of and is |
law of multiple proportions
Dalton's law | (chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation |
multiple regression
multiple correlation | a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables |
| multiple correlation coefficient | an estimate of the combined influence of two or more variables on the observed (dependent) variable |
disk pack
disc pack | (computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device |
batch
clutch | a collection of things or persons to be handled together |
| clutch | a number of birds hatched at the same time |
disk space
disc space | (computer science) the space available on a magnetic disk |
| multiple star | a system of three or more stars associated by gravity |
disk jockey
disc jockey
dj | a person who announces and plays popular recorded music |
aggregate fruit
multiple fruit
syncarp | fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple |
| common multiple | an integer that is a multiple of two or more other integers |
disk
disc
saucer | something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate, the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky |
| clutch | a tense critical situation, he is a good man in the clutch |
multiple sclerosis
MS
disseminated sclerosis
disseminated multiple sclerosis | a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers |
| multiple mononeuropathy | pathology of several individual nerve trunks |
| multiple myeloma | myeloma that develops in several places at the same time |
herniated disc
ruptured intervertebral disc
slipped disc | a painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae, occurs most often in the lumbar region |
cervical disc syndrome
cervical root syndrome | an abnormal condition resulting from compression of spinal nerve roots in the neck region, involves neck pains and muscular weakness and paresthesia |
polyneuritis
multiple neuritis | inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy) |
split personality
multiple personality | a relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge |
| seize clutch get hold of | affect, Fear seized the prisoners, The patient was seized with unbearable pains, He was seized with a dreadful disease |
disk-jockey
disc-jockey
DJ | comment on music to be played, He has a job disk-jockeying on the weekend |
seize
prehend
clutch | take hold of, grab, The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter, She clutched her purse, The mother seized her child by the arm, Birds of prey often seize small mammals |
cling to
hold close
hold tight
clutch | hold firmly, usually with one's hands, She clutched my arm when she got scared |