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Intervening space; interval.

A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.

The condition of being diplostemonous.

tionate; to change the due proportions of. [Obs.] When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered. Chaucer.

Distemperature. [Obs.]

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Unduly. [Obs.]

ad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. [Obs.]

Distempered state; distemperature. [Obs.] Feltham.

The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materially increased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclined gripping wheels.

ng but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.

Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.

Having exactly as many stamens as petals.

The quality or state of being isostemonous.

A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.

Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla.

A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.

See Metric, a.