| 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. |
| AMPUTATORS | • amputators n. Plural of amputator. • AMPUTATOR n. one who amputates. |
| ASTOMATOUS | • astomatous adj. (Biology) Having no mouth, mouthless. • astomatous adj. (Biology) Without apertures, pores, or stomata. • ASTOMATOUS adj. having no stomata, also ASTOMOUS. |
| 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. |
| AUTOMATONS | • automatons n. Plural of automaton. • AUTOMATON n. (Greek) a machine that imitates the movement of a living creature, activated by a concealed mechanism such as clockwork. |
| AUTOMATOUS | • automatous adj. Obsolete form of automatic. • AUTOMATOUS adj. like an automaton. |
| CATAMOUNTS | • catamounts n. Plural of catamount. • CATAMOUNT n. any of various large wild cats, applied esp. to the leopard, panther or ocelot, also CATAMOUNTAIN. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| PORTMANTUA | • portmantua n. Obsolete form of portmanteau (“case”). • PORTMANTUA n. (obsolete) a portmanteau, also PORTMANTEAU, PORTMANTLE. |
| TANTAMOUNT | • tantamount adj. Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct. • tantamount v. (Obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent. • tantamount n. (Obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing… |