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The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

d (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood…

Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliæ.

ness or suitableness; adaptation. That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.

-- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.…

Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

arbitrate upon several reports;; to arbitrate in disputes among heighbors; to arbitrate between parties to a suit.

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Bradley.

Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

nective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.

The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. J. Grote.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Oblique ascension (Astron.), an arc of the equator, intercepted between the fir…

as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.