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The term in a fraction which indicates the number of fractional units that are taken.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the shoulder or the scapula.

To or against the surface of; -- used to indicate the motion of a thing as coming or falling to the surface of another; as, rain falls on the earth. Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken. Matt. xxi. 44.

ht have seemed some secretary or clerk . . . only that his low, flat, unadorned cap . . . indicated that he belonged to the city. Sir W. Scott.

hing to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.

brium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison.

A suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.

t: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.

An apparatus employed to indicate the presence, or the amount, of ozone.

Serving to indicate the presence or the amount of ozone.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.

A combining form used to indicate connection with, or relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid suture.

Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.

of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.

sh shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).

man, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.

d. (Zoöl.) (a) A bird found near the Caribbee Islands; - - so called because its presence indicates to mariners their approach to these islands. Crabb. (b) The black-bellied plover. [Local, U.S.] -- Pilot boat, a strong, fast-sailing boat used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread…

A small, unmanned balloon sent up to indicate the direction of air currents.