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Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer.

sarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.

To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.

ecting stipulation is performed. -- Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.

of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the…

Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.

A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained.

formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root.

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.

Resolutely; unchangeably. Being determinately . . . bent to marry. Sir P. Sidney.

The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.

f which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind. The sound developed itself into a real compound. J. Peile. All insect…

upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry. Channing.

diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also British gum, Alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. See Achroödextrin, and Erythrodextrin.…

To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil. [R.] Farindon.

or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.

A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker. [U.S.] For peddling dicker, not for honest sales. Whittier.

fferential motion, a mechanism in which a simple differential combination produces such a change of motion or force as would, with ordinary compound arrangements, require a considerable train of parts. It is used for overcoming great resistance or producing very slow or very rapid motion. -- Differential pulley. (Mach…

To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel. "The diphthongized long vowels." H. Sweet.