| absolute space | physical space independent of what occupies it |
chicken louse
shaft louse
Menopon palladum
Menopon gallinae | a louse parasitic on poultry |
| quill calamus shaft | the hollow spine of a feather |
air shaft
air well | a shaft for ventilation |
| butt shaft | a blunt arrow without a barb, an arrow used for target practice |
| elevator shaft | a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor |
rotating shaft
shaft | a revolving rod that transmits power or motion |
rotor head
rotor shaft | the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns |
| shaft | a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) |
| shaft | a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel |
| shaft scape | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column |
| shaft | a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) |
spear
lance
shaft | a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon |
| transmission shaft | rotating shaft that transmits rotary motion from the engine to the differential |
| ventilation shaft | a shaft in a building, serves as an air passage for ventilation |
| absolute temperature | temperature measured on the absolute scale |
| absolute zero | (cryogenics) the lowest temperature theoretically attainable (at which the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules is minimal),
Kelvin or -. centigrade or -. Fahrenheit |
| absolute magnitude | (astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance ofparsecs (. light years) from the earth |
| absolute ceiling | the maximum altitude at which an airplane can maintain horizontal flight |
cock
prick
dick
shaft pecker
peter
tool
putz | obscene terms for penis |
diaphysis
shaft | the main (mid) section of a long bone |
absolute pitch
perfect pitch | the ability to identify the pitch of a tone |
| absolute threshold | the lowest level of stimulation that a person can detect |
| absolute | something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things, something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control, something that is not relative, no mortal being can influence the absolute |
| ablative absolute | a constituent in Latin grammar, a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier |
shot
shaft slam
dig
barb
jibe
gibe | an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect, his parting shot was `drop dead', she threw shafts of sarcasm, she takes a dig at me every chance she gets |
| shaft | a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer |
beam
beam of light
light beam
ray
ray of light
shaft
shaft of light
irradiation | a column of light (as from a beacon) |
majority
absolute majority | (elections) more than half of the votes |
absolute value
numerical value | a real number regardless of its sign |
coefficient of viscosity
absolute viscosity
dynamic viscosity | a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid under an applied force |
frequency
absolute frequency | the number of observations in a given statistical category |
barye
bar absolute
microbar | the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter |
Kelvin scale
absolute scale | a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as
degrees, water freezes at . degrees and boils at . degrees |
| absolute alcohol | pure ethyl alcohol (containing no more than % water) |
cheat
chouse
shaft
screw
chicane
jockey | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
| shaft | equip with a shaft |
| absolute | perfect or complete or pure, absolute loyalty, absolute silence, absolute truth, absolute alcohol |
absolute
infrangible
inviolable | not capable of being violated or infringed, infrangible human rights |
absolute downright
out-and-out(a)
rank(a)
right-down
sheer(a) | complete and without restriction or qualification, sometimes used informally as intensifiers, absolute freedom, an absolute dimwit, a downright lie, out-and-out mayhem, an out-and-out lie, a rank outsider, many right-down vices, got the job through sheer persistence, sheer stupidity |
| absolute | not limited by law, an absolute monarch |
| absolute | expressing finality with no implication of possible change, an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority |