| ALTAZIMUTH | • altazimuth n. A telescope or surveying instrument that has a mount permitting both horizontal and vertical rotation. • alt-azimuth n. Alternative form of altazimuth. • ALTAZIMUTH n. an instrument for measuring the altitude and azimuth of heavenly bodies. |
| AMPUTATING | • amputating v. Present participle of amputate. • AMPUTATE v. to cut off. |
| AMPUTATION | • amputation n. Surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc. • amputation n. The loss of a limb, etc. through trauma. • AMPUTATION n. the act of amputating. |
| AUTOMATICS | • automatics n. Plural of automatic. • AUTOMATIC n. an automatic gun. |
| AUTOMATING | • automating v. Present participle of automate. • AUTOMATE v. to convert to automatic control. |
| AUTOMATION | • automation n. The act or process of converting the controlling of a machine or device to a more automatic system… • AUTOMATION n. the technique of making an apparatus, a process, or a system operate automatically. |
| AUTOMATISE | • automatise v. Alternative spelling of automatize. • AUTOMATISE v. to make automatic, also AUTOMATIZE. |
| AUTOMATISM | • automatism n. Acting automatically or involuntarily. • automatism n. The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus. • automatism n. The doctrine that animals are automata, operating according to mechanical laws. |
| AUTOMATIST | • automatist adj. Of or characterized by automatism. • automatist n. One who performs automatic writing. • automatist n. One who holds the doctrine of automatism, believing that animals are automata. |
| AUTOMATIZE | • automatize v. To make or become automatic. • automatize v. To cause to be automated; to automate. • AUTOMATIZE v. to make automatic, also AUTOMATISE. |
| MATURATING | • maturating v. Present participle of maturate. • MATURATE v. to develop fully, also MATURE. |
| MATURATION | • maturation n. The process of becoming mature. • maturation n. (Biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism. • maturation n. (Medicine) The process of maturating, or suppurating fully. |
| MATURATIVE | • maturative n. (Medicine, obsolete) A remedy promoting maturation; a maturant. • maturative adj. (Obsolete) Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration. • MATURATIVE adj. conducing to ripeness or maturity. |
| MUTATIONAL | • mutational adj. Of, pertaining to, or the result of mutation. • MUTATIONAL adj. relating to a mutation. |
| NATATORIUM | • natatorium n. (US) A swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building housing one or more swimming pools. • NATATORIUM n. (Latin) an indoor swimming-pool. |
| THAUMASITE | • thaumasite n. (Mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur. • THAUMASITE n. a mineral, hydrated silicate, carbonate and sulphate of calcium. |
| THAUMATINS | • thaumatins n. Plural of thaumatin. • THAUMATIN n. a sweetener extracted from a West Indian fruit. |
| TRAUMATISE | • traumatise v. Non-Oxford British spelling standard spelling of traumatize. • TRAUMATISE v. to inflict a trauma upon, also TRAUMATIZE. |
| TRAUMATISM | • traumatism n. A physical or mental injury that is the result of trauma. • TRAUMATISM n. a condition caused by a wound, shock. |
| TRAUMATIZE | • traumatize v. (Transitive, pathology) To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents. • traumatize v. (Transitive, psychiatry) To cause a trauma in. • TRAUMATIZE v. to inflict a trauma upon, also TRAUMATISE. |