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6,512 words match “QUA”

ANGLE n.
med by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90º (measured by a quarter circle). -- Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point. -- Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surfac…
ANGLICISM n.
The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.
ANGLICITY n.
The state or quality of being English.
ANGLO-SAXONISM n.
The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
ANGRINESS n.
The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything. Whole Duty of Man.
ANGULAR a.
he motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. -- Angular point, the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed…
ANGULARITY n.
The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
ANGULARNESS n.
The quality of being angular.
ANHARMONIC a.
harmonic. The anharmonic function or ratio of four points abcd on a straight line is the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters.
ANHIMA n.
A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.
ANHINGA n.
An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.
ANIMALISM n.
state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
ANISOCORIA n.
Inequality of the pupils of the eye.
ANISODACTYLOUS a.
Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.
ANISOMEROUS a.
Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.
ANISOMETRIC a.
Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes. Dana.
ANISOMETROPIA n.
Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.
ANISOPETALOUS a.
Having unequal petals.
ANISOPHYLLOUS a.
Having unequal leaves.
ANISOPLEURA n.
ion of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.
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