| COMPENDIUM | • compendium n. A short, complete summary; an abstract. • compendium n. A list or collection of various items. • COMPENDIUM n. (Latin) an assortment, a varied collection. |
| COMPLEMENT | • complement n. (Now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. • complement n. (Obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. • complement n. The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. |
| COMPLIMENT | • compliment n. An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect. • compliment n. (Uncountable) Complimentary language; courtesy, flattery. • compliment n. Misspelling of complement. |
| COMPLUVIUM | • compluvium n. (Architecture) A space left unroofed over the court of a dwelling in Ancient Rome, through which the… • COMPLUVIUM n. (Latin) a space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern. |
| COMPROMISE | • compromise n. The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions. • compromise n. A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender. • compromise n. (Computer security) A breach of a computer or network’s rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or… |
| EMMETROPIC | • emmetropic adj. Pertaining to emmetropia. • EMMETROPIC adj. pertaining to, or characterized by, emmetropia. |
| LUMPECTOMY | • lumpectomy n. (Surgery) The surgical removal of a tumour or cyst from a breast. • LUMPECTOMY n. the surgical removal of a lump, esp. in the breast, aka tylectomy. |
| MACROPRISM | • macroprism n. A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids… • MACROPRISM n. in crystallography, a prism parallel to the macrodiagonal. |
| MICROPRISM | • microprism n. Any of many very small prisms used, either to form a reflective surface, or to form an area in a camera’s… • MICROPRISM n. a tiny prism used as a focusing aid on a single-lens reflex camera. |
| MICROPUMPS | • micropumps n. Plural of micropump. • MICROPUMP n. a miniature pump inserted under the skin to administer a drug. |
| MISCOMPUTE | • miscompute n. An erroneous computation. • miscompute v. To compute erroneously. • MISCOMPUTE v. to compute erroneously. |
| MORPHEMICS | • morphemics n. (Linguistics) The study of morphemes, or of the morphemic structure of a language. • MORPHEMICS n. the study of morphemes. |
| MYCOPLASMA | • mycoplasma n. Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae. • Mycoplasma prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Mycoplasmataceae – bacteria that lack cell walls. • MYCOPLASMA n. a member of the Mycoplasma, a variety of pathogenic agents apparently neither viruses not true bacteria. |
| PANCOSMISM | • pancosmism n. (Philosophy) The belief that nothing exists except the physical and temporal universe. • PANCOSMISM n. the theory that the material universe is all that exists. |
| PANTOMIMIC | • pantomimic adj. Of or relating to pantomime. • PANTOMIMIC adj. like a pantomime, also PANTOMIMICAL. |
| PROCAMBIUM | • procambium n. (Botany) A meristem that lies just inside the protoderm and develops into primary xylem and primary phloem. • PROCAMBIUM n. the young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated. |