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Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

Capable of being acclimated.

Acclimatization.

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.

Acclimation. [R.]

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

Capable of being acclimatized.

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.] Caldwell.

Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced…

In an achromatic manner.

Achromatism.

Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes. W. Flemming.

The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. Nichol.

The act or process of achromatizing.

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

Lacking, or deficient in, color; as, achromatous blood.

Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.