English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Self-love; self-esteem.
Amovability
(n.)
Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.
Amovable
(a.)
Removable.
Amove
(v. t. & i.)
To move or be moved; to excite.
Amove
(v. t.)
To dismiss from an office or station.
Amove
(v. t.)
To remove, as a person or thing, from a position.
Ampelite
(n.)
An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to
kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a
carbonaceous alum schist.
Ampere
(n.)
The unit of electric current; -- defined by the
International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one
tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic
units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when
passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water,
deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also
the international ampere.
Ampere
(n.)
Alt. of Ampere
Amperemeter
(n.)
Alt. of Amperometer
Amperometer
(n.)
An instrument for measuring the strength of an
electrical current in amperes.
Ampersand
(n.)
A word used to describe the character /, /, or &.
A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both
kinds, on both sides, about, around.
Amphiarthrodial
(a.)
Characterized by amphiarthrosis.
Amphiarthrosis
(n.)
A form of articulation in which the bones are
connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.
Amphiaster
(n.)
The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division,
consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of
rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.
Amphibia
(pl. )
of Amphibium
Amphibia
(n. pl.)
One of the classes of vertebrates.
Amphibial
(a. & n.)
Amphibian.
Amphibian
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian
reptiles.