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(Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of the parties, for the purpose of obtaining a decision of the court on some matter of law involved in it. Bouvier. Burrill. -- Amicable numbers (Math.), two numbers, each of which is equal to the sum of all the aliquot parts of the other.…

on of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early sta…

Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic.

nia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.

rom its admitting of a double construction; e. g., "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." Whately.

Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work.

y spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication. -- An`a*gog"ic*al*ly, adv.

To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram. Cudworth.

An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.

uage; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to pl. analogies. Johnson.

n examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

nto elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic. Analytical or coördinate geometry. See under Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the…

(anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascer…

A verse composed of such feet.

of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.

eting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.