The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.
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A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus). An inhabitant of Celtiberia.
The language of the Celts.
A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language.
To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts.
The first proposed name for a supposed new element of the rare-earth group, accompanying lutecium and scandium in the gadolinite earths. It is now considered identical to Lutetium. The proposed symbol was Ct (no period), but this name and symbol are no longer used.
a type of lettuce (Lactuca sativa asparagina) valued especially for its edible stems.
An old name for the harpsichord.
To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.
The act or process of cementing.
Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.
A person or thing that cements.
Of the nature of cement.
Of or pertaining to a cemetery.
A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.
Meal-taking; dining or supping.
Of or pertaining to dinner or supper.
One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.
Of or pertaining to a cenobite.
The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.
The introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution); a modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis.
of or pertaining to cenogenesis. Opposite of palingenetic.
An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
A cenotaph.
Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also c/nozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.
To burn or scatter incense.
A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.
One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
suppressed or subjected to censorship; as, the censored press in some countries. Opposite of uncensored.
Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
Censorial.
Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
Relating to, or containing, a census.
Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.
To judge.
One who censures.
A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.
A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
Rate by the hundred; percentage.
Relating to a hundred.
A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.
A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (Centaurea Calcitrapa).
A genus of low-growing herbs mostly of the northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers.
A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.
a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross.
A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Eryther/a Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.
a fractional monetary unit of several countries such as El Salvador, St. Thomas and Principe, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, and Portugal.
Of or relating to a hundred years. A person a hundred years old.
The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century.
The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
Once in a hundred years.
A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
being or placed in the center.
The part of the outfield directly ahead of the catcher.
Same as Center, n., 6.
Hundredth. A hundredth part.
The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.
A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime.
Hundredth.
See centare.
Hundred-headed.
Divided into a hundred parts.
Having a hundred leaves.
Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts. Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10/ centigrade (or 10/ C.). In measurements, abreviated C.
The hundredth part of a gram; a mass equal to .15432 of a grain. See 3rd Gram.
The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce.
A work divided into a hundred parts.
The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.
The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter.
Sentinel.
A weed with a stem of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.
A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet.
The hundredth part of a stere, equal to 0.353 cubic feet.
A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.
A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.
The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.
Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center-- original had "or of.." -->; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.
the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord; -- abbreviated CNS.
The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.
same as centralization.
The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.
advocating centralization.
The state of being central; tendency towards a center.
The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.
To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.
drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.
causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing.
In a central manner or situation.
a genus of southern European herbs and subshrubs.
any of a group of small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed.
a natural family of fish comprising the sunfishes. See sunfish.
See Center.
To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
same as centerboard.
A retractable or sliding keel used on sailboats, formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent drifting to leeward when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States
same as centered.
same as centerpiece.
An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
a contracted form of CENTRal EXchange.
Placed in the center or middle; central; situated at or near a center.
The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.
A centrifugal machine.
to drive out; to subject to the action of a centrifuge.
the process of separating substances by the use of a centrifuge.
to drive out; to subject to the action of a centrifuge.
to separate (particles in a suspension) from a liquid by centrifugation.
The property or quality of being centrifugal.
See Centring.
one of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.
Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
Centripetency.
Tendency toward the center.
Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.
Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it.
In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.
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