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A prefix formerly much used to denote that the ingredient to the name of which it was prefixed was present in a large, or unusually large, proportion as compared with the other ingredients; as in calcium superphosphate. It has been superseded by per-, bi-, di-, acid, etc. (as peroxide, bicarbonate, disulphide, and acid sulphate), which retain the old meanings of super-, but with sharper definition. Cf. Acid, a., Bi-, Di-, and Per-.
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n.
The art or practice of defining words; definition of words.
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The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary.
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Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.
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Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
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Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
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Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.
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A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
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The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).
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Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail.
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Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.
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The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).
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A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions.
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The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition.
adv.
Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.
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The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.
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The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions.
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Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of "circle;" the definition of "wit;" an exact definition; a loose definition.
v. t.
To make indefinite; to obliterate or confuse the definition or limitations of.
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A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
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