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Of or pertaining to a vision.

That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

So as to be divisional.

as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.

By way of provision for the time being; temporarily. Locke.

Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

garded as the type from which the aromatic compounds are derived. This ring formula is provisionally accepted as representing the probable constitution of the benzene molecule, C6H6, and as the type on which its derivatives are formed.

hich goods, respecting which the importer is not possessed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination. -- Bill of store, a license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, custom free. Wharton. -- Bills payable (pl.), the outstan…

opposition of qualities. The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell.

Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally. Abbott.

Divisional.

A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the United States usually, written jail.] Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred upon judges and others included in it, for trying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, up…

A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis.

A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.

ich sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.

A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals.

Provisional. Burke.

Making temporary provision; provisional.

A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicated under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44…