Category: science

24 entries.

• Agglomerationnoun— A mass or collection of things; an assemblage.
• Amalgamnoun— A mixture or blend.
• Amalgamationnoun— The action, process, or result of combining or uniting.
• Azimuthnoun— (Astronomy) The angular measurement along the horizon, measured clockwise from the north direction to specify the direction of a celestial object.
• Bifurcateverb— Divide into two branches or forks.
• Circuitousadjective— Describes a route, journey, or method that is indirect, roundabout, and not straightforward.
• Concomitantadjective— Naturally accompanying or associated.
• Congealverb— Solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling.
• Diagnosticadjective— Relating to the diagnosis of illness or other problems.
• Diffuseverb— spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people.
• Diurnaladjective— Of or during the day; active in the daytime.
• Efficacynoun— The ability to produce a desired or intended result.
• Endemicadjective— Regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
• Entropynoun— (In information theory) a logarithmic measure of the rate of transfer of information in a particular message or language.
• Invariantadjective— Remaining unchanged under specified conditions or transformations.
• Isomorphicadjective— Corresponding or similar in form and relations.
• Orthogonaladjective— At right angles; statistically independent or uncorrelated.
• Periodicitynoun— The quality or character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at intervals.
• Phylogeneticallyadverb— In a way that relates to the evolutionary development and diversification of a species or group of organisms.
• Quadraticadjective— Involving a squared variable or a polynomial of degree two.
• Shuntverb— Push or pull a train or part of a train from the main line to a siding or from one track to another.
• Sievenoun— A utensil for straining solids from liquids or separating particles.
• Taxonomicadjective— Concerned with the classification of things, especially organisms.
• Tessellateverb— To form into or adorn with mosaic.