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An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.

See under Cyanuric.

Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.

Of or pertaining to alkalimetry.

Like the articles.

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.

In the form or manner of an amphitheater.

Of or pertaining to anemometry.

Pertaining to anthropometry.

Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. [Obs.] South.

Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer.

Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. Huxley.

taining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.

By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations.

Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.

Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light. Hutton.

Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection. Catoptric light, a light in which the rays are concentrated by reflectors into a beam visible at a distance.

Placed in the center or middle; central. At York or some other centrical place. Sir W. Scott. -- Cen"tric*al*ly, adv. -- Cen"tric*al*ness, n.

Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.