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r the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.

around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

ure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.

By the length of, as distinguished from across. "Along the lowly lands." Dryden. The kine . . . went along the highway. 1 Sam. vi. 12.

America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Burrill. Erskine.

To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. Tennyson.

See Kinematic.

See Kinematics.

A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other mach…

the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock. Dunglison.

Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.

e; trust. Affectionate dependence on the Creator is the spiritual life of the soul. T. Erskine.

k separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.

us undergoes peculiar differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the…

Duskiness. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

te the sacrifices of the dead. Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat. Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is ea…

The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Rankine. Efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it.

A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. Rankine.