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The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

Susceptible of polarization.

tution or the legislature, and in the exercise of which the most local governmental organizations should participate as far as possible (Burgess). Under this limitation the police power, as affecting persons, is the power of the state to protect the public against the abuse of individual liberty, that is, to restrain t…

form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole. Blackstone. Hooker.

The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.

polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization. [Formerly also written polymere.]

To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde.

To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

To approve by preconization.

overty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization. Where the pressure of danger was not felt. Macaulay.

icol, of Edinburgh, who first proposed it.] (Opt.) An instrument for experiments in polarization, consisting of a rhomb of Iceland spar, which has been bisected obliquely at a certain angle, and the two parts again joined with transparent cement, so that the ordinary image produced by double refraction is thrown out of…

The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.

fically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint- stock company, or the like.

Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.

rphous crystal, one which has a form that does not result from its own powers of crystallization.

animals, and by the larvæ of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Pædogenesis.

ings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations. Fleming.

ranial capacity. Nevertheless, they represent one of the highest of native American civilizations, characterized by agricultural, military, and administrative skill rather than by science or literature, although they were adept potters, weavers, and goldsmiths, and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of l…

A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale.

Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.