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n silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

Containing, or derived from, amidogen. Amido acid, an acid in which a portion of the nonacid hydrogen has been replaced by the amido group. The amido acids are both basic and acid. -- Amido group, amidogen, NH2.

of half an ampère is said to have 2½ ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns.

geness of dimensions; size. The cathedral of Lincoln . . . is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese. Fuller.

Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becom…

Proportion; equality of ratios.

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

, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.

To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. Swift.

Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.

In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.

The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

aniards. Prescott. The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. Sir W. Scott.

To divide into plots or parts; to apportion. Milton.