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as compared with another thing or state. The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold. Whewell. The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that incloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top. Bentley.

e heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex. Whewell. Complex fraction. See Fraction. -- Complex number (Math.), in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, when a and b are ordinary integers.

w them in composition with other things. I. Watts. The elementary composition of bodies. Whewell.

stract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. Whewell.

man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell.

rodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

hip. He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury.

of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation. Whewell.

ance of his high consideration. D. Webster. The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell.

en one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

er the parts of anything; structure; arrangement. An astrolabe of peculiar construction. Whewell.

nary. Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries. Whewell.

ton. The doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred Scripture. Whewell.

as shown by juxtaposition or comparison. The contrasts and resemblances of the seasons. Whewell.

re at jerusalem. Rom. xv. 26. Aristotle's actual contributions to the physical sciences. Whewell.

t agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. -- Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum w…

to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.

ss of the amount. He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding. Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. Dickens.

music. See Polyphony. Counterpoint, an invention equivalent to a new creation of music. Whewell.