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Monday, March 13, 2023

Aecium

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The rust fungi's fruiting body, also known as the sporocarp.

Aeciospore

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Aeciospores are a type of spore produced by rust fungi, which are plant pathogens that belong to the Basidiomycota phylum. Aeciospores ar...

Aebi

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Aebi is a Swiss company that produces agricultural and industrial equipment. The company was founded in 1883 by Andreas Aebi and original...

Advolution

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Advolution refers to a rolling toward something or growth or development toward a particular direction, often contrasted with evolution....

Adventive

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The term "adventive" can have different meanings depending on the context. Here are a few possible definitions: In biology, a...

Advective

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Advective refers to the transport or movement of a substance or property (such as heat, mass, or momentum) by the flow of a fluid, such ...

Advectional

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Advection is the process of transporting a substance or quantity through the bulk motion of a fluid, and it is used in the fields of phys...

Advection

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In physics and fluid dynamics, advection refers to the transport of a substance, such as a fluid, a gas, or a solute, by the bulk motion ...

Adularization

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Substitution of, or addition of, the mineral adularia.

Adularia

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Adularia is a mineral that belongs to the feldspar group. It is also known as potassium feldspar or orthoclase. Adularia is typically wh...

Adularescence

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Adularescence is an optical phenomenon that occurs in certain types of gemstones, particularly in moonstone. It refers to a milky, bluish...

Adret

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"Adret" is a French word that refers to the sunny side of a mountain, slope or valley. It comes from the Occitan language, spok...

Adrenomedullary

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Adrenomedullary refers to the part of the adrenal gland that produces and secretes catecholamines, such as adrenaline (epinephrine) and n...

Adrenogenital

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Adrenogenital refers to a condition in which the adrenal gland produces an excessive amount of androgen hormones, which are male sex horm...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Adonite

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Large crystals that are optically inactive and melt at 102 degrees Celsius; it does not reduce Fehling's solution and is freely solubl...

Adnate

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Adnate refers to something that is attached or grown together, usually used in biology or anatomy to describe structures that are fused o...

Adlittoral

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"Adlittoral" is not a commonly used term in English, but it appears to refer to the zone immediately adjacent to the shore or ...

Adjutage

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Adjutage refers to a device or tool used in fluid mechanics for measuring the velocity of a fluid (liquid or gas) flowing through a pipe ...

Adjugate

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In mathematics, the adjugate (or classical adjoint) of a square matrix is the transpose of the matrix of cofactors. Given an n x n squa...

Adjoint

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The term "adjoint" has several different meanings, depending on the context in which it is used: In linear algebra, the adjoi...

Adjab

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Probably borrowed from German Adjab, borrowed from a language of southern or central Cameroon.

Adit

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In mining, an underground passage that has been excavated nearly horizontally, typically with one end open to the surface of the earth, ...

Adiposogenital

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Adiposogenital is a medical term used to describe a condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of fat around the genital and p...

Adiponitrile

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Adiponitrile is a colorless organic compound with the chemical formula C6H8N2. It is also known as hexanedinitrile or adipic acid dinitr...

Adiponecrosis

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Adiponecrosis is a medical condition that refers to the death of adipose tissue (fat tissue) in the body. This can occur as a result of ...

Adipocire

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Adipocire, also known as grave wax or mortuary wax, is a substance that forms when a human or animal body is buried in certain condition...

Adipocerite

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Adipocere, also known as grave wax or adipocerite, is a wax-like organic substance that forms when the fat in a dead body undergoes a pr...

Adipocellulose

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A form of cellulose that can be discovered in the cell walls of cork tissue.

Adiphenine

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Adiphenine, also known as adiphenylamine, is a pharmaceutical drug that belongs to the class of antispasmodic agents. It is used to trea...

Adipate

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Adipate is a type of organic compound that contains two carboxylic acid groups attached to a central six-carbon chain. The most common ad...

Adinole

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A type of alteration product produced by contact metamorphism that is characterized by a dense rock composed primarily of quartz and alb...

Adibatic

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Adiabatic refers to a process in thermodynamics where no heat is exchanged between a system and its surroundings. In an adiabatic process...

Adiathermic

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The term "adiathermic" refers to a material or a boundary that does not allow the transfer of heat energy. It is derived from ...

Adiathermanous

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"Adiathermanous" is not a commonly used word in modern English, and it is not found in standard English dictionaries. However, ...

Adiagnostic

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Relating to the characteristics of a rock texture in which it is not possible to identify individual components using either a macroscope...

Adiabat

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An adiabat is a thermodynamic process in which there is no transfer of heat or matter between a system and its surroundings. In other wor...

Adherend

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An adherend is a material or object that is being bonded or attached to another material or object using an adhesive. In other words, it ...

Adfreezing

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The concepts of adhesiveness and freezing are combined into one word: adfreezing. Adfreezing is when the water that is already present i...

Ader

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A Benjamites, son of Beriah, chief of the inhabitants of Aijalon. ( 1 Chronicles 8:15 )

Adeoniform

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Masses of lymphoid tissue that have grown to an abnormal size and are located at the back of the pharynx. They typically block the nasal...

Adenylcyclase

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Adenylyl cyclase (AC) is an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) into cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAM...

Adenosis

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Adenosis refers to the enlargement of the glands within a tissue, particularly the breast tissue. This condition is usually benign and do...

Adenophyllous

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The word "adenophyllous" is an adjective used to describe a plant that has glandular or swollen leaves. The term comes from the...

Adenomere

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The blind terminal portion of the glandular cavity of a developing gland; this is the portion of the organ that is responsible for its f...

Adenomatous

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Adenomatous refers to the presence or characteristics of an adenoma, which is a benign tumor that originates from glandular tissue. Adeno...

Adenomatoid

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Adenomatoid refers to a type of benign tumor that commonly occurs in the genital region. Adenomatoid tumors are usually small and slow-g...

Adenoacanthoma

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Adenoacanthoma is a type of tumor that has features of both adenoma (a benign tumor that arises from glandular tissue) and squamous cell ...

Adeno

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"Adeno" is a prefix that is commonly used in medical terminology to refer to adenoids or adenoviruses. Adenoids are a type of...

Adelphous

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"Adelphous" is an adjective that describes something that is composed of parts that are united or joined together, as if they ...

Adelite

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Adelite is a mineral that belongs to the apatite group. Its chemical formula is CaMg(AsO4)(OH), and it typically occurs as small, transpa...

Addressless

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"Addressless" typically refers to a situation or system where there is no specific physical or digital location assigned or req...

Additivity

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Additivity is a mathematical property that refers to the ability of a system to combine or mix multiple components in a way that the resu...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Adcumulus

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The formation of a cumulus crystal that prevents the formation of other phases, resulting in a monomineralic rock.

Adconductor

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A type of cathode that produces electron emission in a glow or arc discharge by using alkali metal atoms that have been adsorbed.

Adatom

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An adatom is a single atom that is adsorbed onto a surface. Adsorption is the process by which molecules or atoms stick to the surface o...

Adapical

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In the direction of a peak.

Adapertural

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In the direction of the opening in the shell of a gastropod or cephalopod.

Adamellite

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Adamellite is a type of intrusive igneous rock that is composed of plagioclase feldspar, potassium feldspar, quartz, and mafic minerals ...

Adambulacral

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Adambulacral is a term used in biology to refer to the ambulacral plates on the oral or lower surface of echinoderms, such as sea urchin...

Adamantane

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Adamantane is a colorless, crystalline, and highly stable organic compound with the chemical formula C10H16. It is a type of diamondoid,...

Acyloin

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Acyloin is a type of organic compound that contains both an alcohol (-OH) group and a carbonyl group (C=O) in its structure. The acyloin...

Acylnitrene

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An acylnitrene is a type of reactive chemical species that contains a nitrogen atom, a carbonyl group (C=O), and a functional group call...

Acylcarbene

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies An acylcarbene is a highly reactive intermediate in organic c...

Acutilobate

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies "Acutilobate" is not a commonly used word in everyd...

Acutifoliate

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies "Acutifoliate" is an adjective used to describe a l...

Acutated

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies An acutated switch is a resilient, flexible diaphragm having ...

Actium

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Actium was an ancient city and a significant naval battle tha...

Actinostele

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Actinostele is a type of stem arrangement in plants, characte...

Actinomyosin

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Actinomyosin is a protein complex consisting of actin and myo...

Actinide

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Actinides are a group of chemical elements that are located i...

Acrasin

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acrasin refers to a chemical substance that is produced by ce...

Acoustooptics

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acousto-optics is a branch of physics that deals with the int...

Acouchi

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acouchi (also spelled "acouchy") is a type of roden...

Acoelous

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acoelous (also spelled as acoelomate) is a term used in biolo...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

Acoelomate

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acoelomate is a term used to describe animals that lack a coe...

Acmite

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acmite is a rare mineral that belongs to the pyroxene group o...

Acidolysis

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acidolysis is a chemical reaction in which an ester is hydrol...

Achondrite

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Achondrite is a type of stony meteorite that is differentiate...

Acholia

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies The medical condition known as acholia is defined as an absen...

Achlamydeous

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies "Achlamydeous" is an adjective used to describe a p...

Achiral

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Achiral is a term used in chemistry to describe a molecule or...

Acetylurea

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acetylurea is a chemical compound with the molecular formula ...

Acetylide

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acetylide refers to a chemical compound or ion that contains ...

Acentrous

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Characterized by the absence of vertebral centra and the main...

Acene

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Acene is a type of organic compound that belongs to the famil...

Accumbent

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies The word "accumbent" can have different meanings de...

Absiemens

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies The absiemens (symbol: abs) is a unit of electrical conductan...

Abscisic

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Abscisic acid, or ABA, is a plant hormone that helps regulate...

Abomasitis

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Abomasitis, also known as congestive abomasal disorder, is a ...

Ablator

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Ablator, sometimes referred to as ablative material, is a spe...

Abhesive

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All Products Books Popular Music Classical Music Movies Abhesive is an innovative new material used for adhesion in i...

Abelite

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Abelite is an exceptionally rare mineral, first discovered in the early 19th century. It has a beautiful pale green hue and a unique crys...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Exploring Einstein@Home and Neutron Stars

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Have you ever heard of Einstein@Home? It’s a volunteer computing project that searches for signals from spinning neutron stars in data from ...
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