n. [ L. ab + E. articulation : cf. F. abarticulation. See Article. ] (Anat.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ablatio, fr. ablatus p. p. of auferre to carry away; ab + latus, p. p. of ferre carry: cf. F. ablation. See Tolerate. ] 1. A carrying or taking away; removal. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Extirpation. Dunglison. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Removing or destroying of a body tissue, especially by a surgical procedure. Dorland. [ AS ]

4. (Geol.) Wearing away; superficial waste, as of glacial ice or snow. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Aerospace) Wearing away of the outer layers of a protective shield or surface by the heat and aerodynamic forces caused by flying through the atmosphere at hypersonic speed, as during reentry from space; as, ablation of the heat shield during reentry. [ PJC ]

a. Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ablatif, ablative, L. ablativus fr. ablatus. See Ablation. ] 1. Taking away or removing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Gram.) The ablative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

ablative absolute, a construction in Latin, in which a noun in the ablative case has a participle (either expressed or implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acceptilatio entry of a debt collected, acquittance, fr. p. p. of accipere (cf. Accept) + latio a carrying, fr. latus, p. p. of ferre to carry: cf. F. acceptilation. ] (Civil Law) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accumulatio; cf. F. accumulation. ] 1. The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accumulation of energy or
power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. --
An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ly, adv. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adosculari, adosculatum, to kiss. See Osculate. ] (Biol.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. adulation, fr. L. adulatio, fr. adulari, adulatum, to flatter. ] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. [ 1913 Webster ]

Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
With titles blown from adulation? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. -- Adulation, Flattery, Compliment. Men deal in compliments from a desire to please; they use flattery either from undue admiration, or a wish to gratify vanity; they practice adulation from sordid motives, and with a mingled spirit of falsehood and hypocrisy. Compliment may be a sincere expression of due respect and esteem, or it may be unmeaning; flattery is apt to become gross; adulation is always servile, and usually fulsome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. afflatus, p. p. of afflare to blow or breathe on; ad + flare to blow. ] A blowing or breathing on; inspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., agricolatio. ] Agriculture. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. alatus winged. ] The state of being winged. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ambulatio. ] The act of walking. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Walking. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A making angular; angular formation. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. anhelatio, fr. anhelare to pant; an (perh. akin to E. on) + halare to breathe: cf. F. anhélation. ] Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. criticising vehemently and effectively; making light of; as, afire with annihilating invective.
Syn. -- devastating, withering. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. annihilation. ] 1. The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being annihilated. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Theol.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to annihilate; destructive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt. Nicholson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appellatio, fr. appellare: cf. F. appellation. See Appeal. ] 1. The act of appealing; appeal. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of calling by a name. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. [ 1913 Webster ]

They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Name. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appellativus, fr. appellare: cf. F. appelatif. See Appeal. ] 1. Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appelativum, sc. nomen. ] 1. A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An appellation or title; a descriptive name. [ 1913 Webster ]

God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being appellative. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Division into areolæ. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ariolatio, hariolatio, fr. hariolari to prophesy, fr. hariolus soothsayer. ] A soothsaying; a foretelling. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Latin. ] (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton especially if the articulatio allows motion.
Syn. -- joint, articulation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. articulation, fr. L. articulatio. ] 1. (Anat.) A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united (synarthrosis), or slightly movable, when they are united intervening substance (amphiarthrosis), or they may be more or less freely movable, when the articular surfaces are covered with synovial membranes, as in complete joints (diarthrosis). The last (diarthrosis) includes hinge joints, admitting motion in one plane only (ginglymus), ball and socket joints (enarthrosis), pivot and rotation joints, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods. (b) One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize. (c) One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The state of being jointed; connection of parts. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to articulation. Bush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated).
Syn. -- assimilative, assimilatory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. assimilatio: cf. F. assimilation. ] 1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. assimilativus, F. assimilatif. ] Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. assimulatio, equiv. to assimilatio. ] Assimilation. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. astipulatio. ] Stipulation; agreement. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + inoculation. ] (Med.) Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ LL. avolatio. ] The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A humming sound; a booming. [ 1913 Webster ]

To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Bromine + gelatin. ] (Photog.) Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. calculation, fr. L. calculatio; cf. OF. calcucation. ] 1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. “The calculation of eclipses.” Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An expectation based on circumstances. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lazy gossips of the port,
Abhorrent of a calculation crost,
Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Long habits of calculative dealings. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cancellatio: cf. F. cancellation. ] 1. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capillatio the hair. ] A capillary blood vessel. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. capitulation, LL. capitulatio. ] 1. A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]