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Having equal moments of inertia.

Of or pertaining to excrement.

Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

One who makes experiments; an experimenter. Whaterly.

To make experiments (upon); to experiment. J. S. Mill.

By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.

Fermentative. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions. Dryden.

Fragmentary.

Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of th…

; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.

he hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.

Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.

Affording no aliment or nourishment. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

g as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business. The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth. Shak.

The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n.

One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.