| COMMINUTION | • comminution n. (Often mining, waste management) The breaking or grinding up of a material to form smaller particles. • comminution n. (Traumatology) The fracture of a bone site in multiple pieces (technically, at least three); crumbling. • COMMINUTION n. the act of comminuting. |
| COMMUNIONAL | • COMMUNIONAL adj. related to communion. |
| COMMUTATION | • commutation n. (Formal or archaic) Substitution of one thing for another; interchange. • commutation n. Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment… • commutation n. (Law) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State. |
| CONDOMINIUM | • condominium n. Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries. • condominium n. (US, Canada, Philippines) A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units… • CONDOMINIUM n. (US) a block of apartments in which each apartment is separately owned. |
| EXCOMMUNION | • excommunion n. (Obsolete) A shutting out from communion; excommunication. • EXCOMMUNION n. (Milton) excommunication. |
| HORMOGONIUM | • hormogonium n. (Biology) A small, motile filament, formed by some cyanobacteria, that detaches and grows by cell division… • HORMOGONIUM n. a portion of a filament in many cyanobacteria that becomes detached as a reproductive body. |
| IMMOMENTOUS | • immomentous adj. Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant. • IMMOMENTOUS adj. of no value, trifling, also IMMOMENT. |
| IMMUNOBLOTS | • immunoblots n. Plural of immunoblot. • IMMUNOBLOT n. a technique used in biology to transfer a pattern of proteins. |
| IMMUNOLOGIC | • immunologic adj. Immunological. • IMMUNOLOGIC adj. relating to immunology, also IMMUNOLOGICAL. |
| IMMUNOTOXIC | • immunotoxic adj. (Immunology) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an immunotoxin; toxic to the immune system. • IMMUNOTOXIC adj. relating to an immunotoxin. |
| IMMUNOTOXIN | • immunotoxin n. Any compound that is toxic to the immune system. • IMMUNOTOXIN n. a toxin with immunosuppressive effects. |
| MONOCHASIUM | • monochasium n. (Botany) A type of cyme on which each single axis bears one flower. • MONOCHASIUM n. a cyme with a single main stem. |
| MUSHROOMING | • mushrooming v. Present participle of mushroom. • mushrooming n. The act of gathering mushrooms. • mushrooming n. Rapid or explosive growth. |
| POLEMONIUMS | • polemoniums n. Plural of polemonium. • POLEMONIUM n. a genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian. |