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An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampères.

A word used to describe the character Halliwell.

A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.

Characterized by amphiarthrosis.

A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

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.

One of the classes of vertebrates.

Amphibian. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.

Pertaining to amphibiology.

A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

A division of insects having aquatic larvæ.

Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare.

Like an amphibious being.

An amphibian.

Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.

Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.

Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous. "Amphibological expressions." Jer. Taylor. -- Am*phib`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.