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465 words match “FORMATION”

NOTE n.
Notification; information; intelligence. [Obs.] The king . . . shall have note of this. Shak.
NOTICE n.
A writing communicating information or warning.
NOTIFICATION n. 2 definitions
iving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.
NOTOTHERIUM n.
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
NUNCIUS n.
The information communicated.
OBSERVATION n.
The information so acquired.
ODONTOBLAST n.
urface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.
OFF adv.
nate. -- To tell off (Mil.), to divide and practice a regiment or company in the several formations, preparatory to marching to the general parade for field exercises. Farrow. -- To be well off, to be in good condition. -- To be ill off, To be badly off, to be in poor condition.
ONOMATOPOEIA n.
The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.
OPERATION n.
Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
ORDOVICIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian. -- n.
OREODON n.
A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.
ORIGINALLY adv.
At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand. "Originally a half length [portrait]." Walpole.
OSSIFICATION n.
The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.
OSTEOGENESIS; OSTEOGENY n.
The formation or growth of bone.
OSTEOGENETIC a.
Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone; producing bone; as, osteogenetic tissue; the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum.
OSTOSIS n.
Bone formation; ossification. See Ectostosis, and Endostosis.
OVULATION n.
The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the mammalian female the discharge occurs during menstruation.
PALEOCRYSTIC a.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.
PALEOSAURUS n.
A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.
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