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A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploön.

The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

mbrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum See Omentum. The caul serves for warming of the lower belly. Ray.

To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

See Omentum.

the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to accumulate or give out energy for a variable or intermitting resistance. See Fly, n., 9. -- On the fly (Baseball), still in the air; -- said of a batted ball caught before touching the ground..…

ricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow (Anat.), the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.

Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.

Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.

s to be raised. When the rush of water through the main pipe d shuts the valve at a, the momentum of the current thus suddenly checked forces part of it into the air chamber b, and up the pipe c, its return being prevented by a valve at the entrance to the air chamber, while the dropping of the valve a by its own weigh…

irtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

Impulsive power; force; momentum. The moments or quantities of motion in bodies. Berkley. Touch, with lightest moment of impulse, His free will. Milton.

Of or pertaining to moment or momentum.

Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.

from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

onceived as being without extension, yet having physical properties, as weight, inertia, momentum, etc.; a material point. -- Physical signs (Med.), the objective signs of the bodily state afforded by a physical examination.

tuting a proportion; having the same, or a constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional to quantity of matter. Proportional logarithms, logistic logarithms. See under Logistic. -- Proportional scale, a scale on which are marked parts proportional to the logarithms of the natural numbers; a lo…

ct. ) -- Quantity of matter, in a body, its mass, as determined by its weight, or by its momentum under a given velocity. -- Quantity of motion (Mech.), in a body, the relative amount of its motion, as measured by its momentum, varying as the product of mass and velocity. -- Known quantities (Math.), quantities whose…