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Allowance
noun · 78% connection
That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Attachment
noun · 78% connection
Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Bath
noun · 78% connection
A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five qu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Bellows
n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection
An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air throug…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Commensurable
adjective · 78% connection
Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Comparator
noun · 78% connection
An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for compari…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Complement
verb · 78% connection
A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Coulomb
noun · 78% connection
The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current prod…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Cryophorus
noun · 78% connection
An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connecte…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Cutter
noun · 78% connection
That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the st…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Ebb
verb · 78% connection
To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Entropy
noun · 78% connection
A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Ephemeris time
noun · 78% connection
(astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion; terrestrial time is mean solar time corrected for the irregularities…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Fall
verb · 78% connection
To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Flood
verb · 78% connection
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Flow
noun · 78% connection
A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
Function
noun · 78% connection
A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, machine, serving, measure, time.
