Same as Entresol. A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
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Mean; not extreme.
Mezzo-rilievo.
A middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief. Sculpture in this kind of relief. See under Alto-rilievo.
Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer. A mezzo-soprano voice. A person having such a voice.
To engrave in mezzotint.
One who engraves in mezzotint.
To engrave in mezzotint; to represent by mezzotint.
A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm.
An instrument for measuring conductivity.
See Mohr.
A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system.
A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.
A mineral of an iron-black color, and very sectile, consisting principally of sulphur, antimony, and silver.
The orang-outang.
A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elaeolite, and sodalite.
Miasma.
Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
Containing miasma; miasmatic.
Containing, or relating to, miasma; caused by miasma; as, miasmatic diseases.
One who has made a special study of miasma.
That department of medical science which treats of miasma.
The crying of a cat.
The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.
Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.
Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica.
pl. of Mouse.
A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.
The feast of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn.
To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly.
Of or pertaining to Michelangelo.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, renowned Italian painter, sculptor and architect; 1475-1564.
One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc.
Theft; cheating.
A resident of Michigan.
Hiding; skulking; cowardly.
a person of Irish descent; -- an ethnic slur, offensive and disparaging.
Much; great.
A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.
Same as Microustic.
A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.
Of or pertaining to microchemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.
The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, usually assisted by sensitive instruments; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.
Of or pertaining to micro-geology.
The part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope.
One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one amp/re.
Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.
In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria.
An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.
Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, microbial growth; the microbian theory; a microbian disease.
Of or pertaining to a microbe.
Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.
The branch of biology studying minute organisms, or microbes, such as the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa.
A microscopic organism; a microorganism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.
Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to megacephalic.
A chronoscope.
A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.
Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci.
A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.
A small computer based on a microprocessor; in practise, at any given time in the technology of computer development, a microcomputer will be one that is less powerful than a minicomputer.
A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm.
Of or pertaining to the microcosm.
Description of man as a microcosm.
A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.
An instrument for making faint sounds audible, as to a partially deaf person.
The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, at one time taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. This unit is no longer used, and has been replaced by the Dalton, which is of approximately the same value. See molecular weight and Crith.
Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anaemia.
Having small teeth.
The millionth part of a farad.
to photograph and produce images of on microfilm.
A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism of microscopic size.
An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.
Of or pertaining to micrography.
The description of microscopic objects.
The millionth part of an ohm.
A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.
An extinct genus of small Triassic mammals, the oldest yet found in European strata.
Same as Microlite, 2.
Formed of small stones.
Of or pertaining to micrology; very minute; as, micrologic examination.
That part of science which treats of microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation.
A form of mercury poisoning resulting from long term exposure to low doses of mercury. The syndrome of micromercurialism involves complex symptoms of stress, fatigue, memory loss, fine tremors, muscular and reflex insufficiency and low blood pressure, caused by accumulation of mercury in the system. A condition of hyperthermia is accompanied by a series of functional changes under the effects of mercury. The combined simultaneous effect of toxic action, temperature and galvanic response infers a cycle of disintegration and change.
One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.
A meteorite so small that it drifts down to Earth without becoming intensely heated in the earth's atmosphere.
of or relating to a micrometeorite.
An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass.
Belonging to micrometry; made by the micrometer.
The art of measuring with a micrometer.
The millionth part of a meter.
A genus of Old World harvest mice.
A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.
A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.
An instrument for noting minute portions of time.
Any microscopic form of life; a form of life too small to be seen by the naked eye; -- particularly applied to bacteria, protozoa, yeasts, and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.
A parasitic microorganism.
A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).
An instrument for converting sounds into electrical signals, for the purpose of recording or amplifying the sounds. It produces its effects in various ways, as for example by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations. Other forms of microphone may use changes in capacitance or other phenomena to transduce the sounds into electrical signals.
Of or pertaining to a microphone; serving to intensify weak sounds.
The science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.
Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.
The art of making microphotographs.
An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.
Small-leaved.
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.
A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted. An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule.
Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope.
An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
Microscopic.
By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.
One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.
The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.
A feeble earth tremor not directly perceptible, but detected only by means of specially constructed apparatus.
A microseismometer; specif., a microseismometer producing a graphic record.
Science or study of microseisms.
A seismometer for measuring amplitudes or periods, or both, of microseisms.
Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to megaseme.
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