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Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic.

An explosive consisting of a mixture of powdered aluminium and nitrate of ammonium.

Characterized by amphiarthrosis.

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.

Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate, a derivative of nitrobenzene, chlorated napthalene, and wood meal.

Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever. [Obs.]

formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic. Analytical or coördinate geometry. See under Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical…

The science of analysis.

The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.

To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a w…

An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.

Same as Anamorphosis.

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n.

Not astigmatic; --said esp. of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.

To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins. The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to anastomosis.

ividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.