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Apparent
adjective · 78% connection
Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Aurora
noun · 78% connection
an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Cat-tail
noun · 78% connection
A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Cleistogamous
adjective · 78% connection
Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Consequence
noun · 78% connection
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Deflection
noun · 78% connection
The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; devi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Dextrorotatory
adjective · 78% connection
Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Drummond light
unknown · 78% connection
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
East
noun · 78% connection
The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Effect
noun · 78% connection
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Endogen
noun · 78% connection
A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, ir…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Epipolized
adjective · 78% connection
Changed to the epipolic condition, or that in which the phenomenon of fluorescence is presented; produced by fluorescence; as, epipoli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Event
noun · 78% connection
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Face
noun · 78% connection
That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Fluorescence
noun · 78% connection
That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Foliage
noun · 78% connection
A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Geocentrical
adjective · 78% connection
Having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.
Glow
noun · 78% connection
the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phenomenon, turning, toward, light, seen.