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noun
noun
- (electricity) A technology and engineering field within electronics, concerning electric power delivery and distribution.
- (music) A subgenre of industrial music with low-end drones, harsh loops, and screamed or distorted vocals.
- (electronics) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see power, electronics. Electronics for controlling electric power and energy.
noun
- (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
- An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
- A person or thing exerting such power or action.
- The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
- (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
- one having power to influence another
- the effect of one thing (or person) on another
- a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do
- causing something without any direct or apparent effort
- a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc
verb
- (transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
- (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
- shape or influence; give direction to
- induce into action by using one's charm
- have and exert influence or effect
noun
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
- (electrical engineering) An electrochemical cell that uses air as a terminal, such as the metal-air electrochemical cell.
- (mechanical engineering) A prechamber in an indirect injection internal combustion engine.
- (medicine) A terminal dilation of the bronchiole in lungs or similar organs where gas exchange occurs.
- (medicine) Spaces that contain air in the bones of the skull.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see air cell.
- a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways
noun
- Initialism of electrical engineering.
- (countable) Initialism of electrical engineer.
- (software) Initialism of execution environment
- Initialism of Easter egg.
- (uncountable, psychiatry) Initialism of expressed emotion.
- the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication
name
noun
- (electronics) The reversal of an electric current.
- Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.
- (law) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State
- (US, nonstandard) The process or habit of journeying to and from work on a regular basis; commuting.
- (linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.
- a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
- the travel of a commuter
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
noun
- (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- (geology) A tectonic plate.
- (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
- (music) A record, usually vinyl.
- (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- A prize given to the winner in a contest.
- (printing, photography) An image or copy.
- Precious metal, especially silver.
- A material covered with such a layer.
- (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
- The contents of such a dish.
- (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
- (historical) Plate armor.
- A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
- (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
- (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
- (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (military) trauma plate.
- (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
- (especially Australia; metonymic, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
- One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
- (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
- A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
- (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A person's foot.
- (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
- (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- A flat object of uniform thickness.
- (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
- A course at a meal.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.
- (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
- A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
- A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
- the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- the thin under portion of the forequarter
- a shallow receptacle for collection in church
- any flat platelike body structure or part
- a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
- a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- the quantity contained in a plate
- a main course served on a plate
verb
- (baseball) To score a run.
- (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
- (philately, particularly with early British stamps) To identify the printing plate used.
- (cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
- (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
- coat with a layer of metal
noun
- (electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
- (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
- (statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- (sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
adj
adv
verb
noun
noun
- (electrical engineering) The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced to the dielectric.
- Mental assimilation.
- Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind.
- (meteorology) The process in which incident radiant energy is retained by a substance (such as an air mass) by conversion to some other form of energy (such as heat).
- (physical chemistry, physics) the imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action, of radiant energy; the process of being neutrons being absorbed by the nucleus; interception.
- (physiology) in living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs; taking in by various means, such as by osmosis.
- The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
- assimilation; incorporation.
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
- the mental state of being preoccupied by something
- the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
- (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
- (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium
adj
- (chemistry) electropositive
- (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Confirmed, straight-up.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- (slang) HIV positive.
- (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Fully assured in opinion.
- (law) Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Optimistic.
- (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable.
- (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- impossible to deny or disprove
- involving advantage or good
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- greater than zero
- formally laid down or imposed
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- marked by excessive confidence
- of or relating to positivism
- having a positive charge
- persuaded of; very sure
noun
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- A positive result of a test.
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
noun
- (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
- (genetics) The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
- The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
- (organic chemistry) A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants).
- (translation studies) A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
- (electronics) Gain.
- (physics) The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
noun
noun
- (electricity) A technology and engineering field within electronics, concerning electric power delivery and distribution.
- (music) A subgenre of industrial music with low-end drones, harsh loops, and screamed or distorted vocals.
- (electronics) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see power, electronics. Electronics for controlling electric power and energy.
noun
- (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
- An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
- A person or thing exerting such power or action.
- The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
- (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
- one having power to influence another
- the effect of one thing (or person) on another
- a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do
- causing something without any direct or apparent effort
- a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc
verb
- (transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
- (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
- shape or influence; give direction to
- induce into action by using one's charm
- have and exert influence or effect
noun
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
- (electrical engineering) An electrochemical cell that uses air as a terminal, such as the metal-air electrochemical cell.
- (mechanical engineering) A prechamber in an indirect injection internal combustion engine.
- (medicine) A terminal dilation of the bronchiole in lungs or similar organs where gas exchange occurs.
- (medicine) Spaces that contain air in the bones of the skull.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see air cell.
- a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways
noun
- Initialism of electrical engineering.
- (countable) Initialism of electrical engineer.
- (software) Initialism of execution environment
- Initialism of Easter egg.
- (uncountable, psychiatry) Initialism of expressed emotion.
- the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication
name
noun
- (electronics) The reversal of an electric current.
- Specifically, the substitution of one kind of payment for another, especially a switch to monetary payment from obligations of labour.
- (law) The change to a lesser penalty or punishment by the State
- (US, nonstandard) The process or habit of journeying to and from work on a regular basis; commuting.
- (linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.
- a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
- the travel of a commuter
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
noun
- (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- (geology) A tectonic plate.
- (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
- (music) A record, usually vinyl.
- (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- A prize given to the winner in a contest.
- (printing, photography) An image or copy.
- Precious metal, especially silver.
- A material covered with such a layer.
- (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
- The contents of such a dish.
- (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
- (historical) Plate armor.
- A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
- (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
- (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
- (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (military) trauma plate.
- (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
- (especially Australia; metonymic, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
- One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
- (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
- A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
- (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A person's foot.
- (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
- (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- A flat object of uniform thickness.
- (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
- A course at a meal.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.
- (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
- A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
- A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
- the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- the thin under portion of the forequarter
- a shallow receptacle for collection in church
- any flat platelike body structure or part
- a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
- a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- the quantity contained in a plate
- a main course served on a plate
verb
- (baseball) To score a run.
- (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
- (philately, particularly with early British stamps) To identify the printing plate used.
- (cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
- (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
- coat with a layer of metal
noun
- (electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
- (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
- (statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- (sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
adj
adv
verb
noun
noun
- (electrical engineering) The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced to the dielectric.
- Mental assimilation.
- Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind.
- (meteorology) The process in which incident radiant energy is retained by a substance (such as an air mass) by conversion to some other form of energy (such as heat).
- (physical chemistry, physics) the imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action, of radiant energy; the process of being neutrons being absorbed by the nucleus; interception.
- (physiology) in living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs; taking in by various means, such as by osmosis.
- The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,
- assimilation; incorporation.
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
- the mental state of being preoccupied by something
- the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
- (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
- (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium
noun
- (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
- (genetics) The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
- The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
- (organic chemistry) A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants).
- (translation studies) A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
- (electronics) Gain.
- (physics) The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
adj
- (chemistry) electropositive
- (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Confirmed, straight-up.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- (slang) HIV positive.
- (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Fully assured in opinion.
- (law) Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Optimistic.
- (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable.
- (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- impossible to deny or disprove
- involving advantage or good
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- greater than zero
- formally laid down or imposed
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- marked by excessive confidence
- of or relating to positivism
- having a positive charge
- persuaded of; very sure
noun
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- A positive result of a test.
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution