altazimuth | (noun) an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation | - |
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azimuth | (noun) the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian | Synonyms: AZ |
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azimuthal | (adjective) of or relating to or in azimuth | - |
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bismuth | (noun) a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals | Synonyms: atomic number 83, Bi |
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bismuthal | (adjective) of or relating to bismuth | - |
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bismuthic | (adjective) containing bismuth (especially in the pentavalent state) | - |
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commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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(noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
commutable | (adjective) subject to alteration or change | - |
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(adjective) capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent | Synonyms: substitutable |
commutate | (verb) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current | - |
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commutation | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commuting |
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(noun) (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law | Synonyms: re-sentencing |
(noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: exchange, substitution |
(noun) a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one | - |
commutative | (adjective) (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a" | - |
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commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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commute | (noun) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work | - |
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(verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: permute, transpose |
(verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: convert, exchange |
(verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, convert, exchange |
(verb) exchange positions without a change in value | Synonyms: transpose |
(verb) travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home | - |
commuter | (noun) a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another | Synonyms: commuter train |
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(noun) someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city | - |
commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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gamut | (noun) a complete extent or range: | - |
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(noun) the entire scale of musical notes | - |
gomuti | (noun) Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Arenga pinnata, gomuti palm, sugar palm |
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immutability | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutableness |
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immutable | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: changeless |
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(adjective) constant and unchanging | - |
immutableness | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutability |
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immutably | (adverb) in an unalterable and unchangeable manner | Synonyms: unalterably, unassailably, unchangeably |
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incommutability | (noun) the quality of being not interchangeable | - |
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incommutable | (adjective) not subject to alteration or change | - |
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(adjective) not interchangeable or able to substitute one for another | - |
malamute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malemute |
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malemute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malamute |
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mutability | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutableness |
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mutable | (adjective) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: changeable |
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(adjective) tending to undergo genetic mutation | - |
(adjective) prone to frequent change; inconstant | - |
mutableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutability |
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mutafacient | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents) | - |
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mutagen | (noun) any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation | - |
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mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
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mutagenic | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of extracellular factors such as X-rays or chemical pollution) | - |
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mutant | (adjective) tending to undergo or resulting from mutation | - |
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(noun) an animal that has undergone mutation | - |
(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutation, sport, variation |
mutate | (verb) undergo mutation | - |
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mutation | (noun) (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism | Synonyms: chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation |
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(noun) a change or alteration in form or qualities | - |
(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, sport, variation |
mutational | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from mutation | - |
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mutative | (adjective) of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation | - |
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mutchkin | (noun) a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint | - |
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mute | (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: silent, tongueless, unspoken, wordless |
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(adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: dumb, silent |
(noun) a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument | - |
(noun) a deaf person who is unable to speak | Synonyms: deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute |
(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, muffle, tone down |
muted | (adjective) being or made softer or less loud or clear | Synonyms: dull, muffled, softened |
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(adjective) in a softened tone | Synonyms: hushed, quiet, subdued |
mutely | (adverb) without speaking | Synonyms: silently, taciturnly, wordlessly |
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muteness | (noun) a refusal to speak when expected | Synonyms: silence |
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(noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: mutism |
mutilate | (verb) destroy or injure severely | Synonyms: mar |
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(verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mangle |
(verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, murder |
mutilated | (adjective) having a part of the body crippled or disabled | Synonyms: maimed |
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mutilation | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, disfigurement |
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(noun) an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part | - |
mutilator | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mangler |
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mutineer | (noun) someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers) | - |
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mutinous | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny | - |
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(adjective) disposed to or in a state of mutiny | - |
mutiny | (noun) open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers) | - |
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(verb) engage in a mutiny against an authority | - |
mutisia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Mutisia | - |
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mutism | (noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: muteness |
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muton | (noun) the smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur | - |
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mutt | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mongrel |
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mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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(noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
(verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
(verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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(noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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mutual | (adjective) concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return | Synonyms: reciprocal |
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(adjective) common to or shared by two or more parties | Synonyms: common |
mutualism | (noun) the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other | Synonyms: symbiosis |
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mutualist | (adjective) mutually dependent | Synonyms: interdependent, mutually beneficial |
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mutuality | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, interdependency |
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(noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutualness |
mutually | (adverb) in a mutual or shared manner | Synonyms: reciprocally |
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mutualness | (noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutuality |
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parimutuel | (noun) betting where winners share the total amount wagered | - |
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permutability | (noun) ability to change sequence | Synonyms: permutableness, transposability |
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permutable | (adjective) capable of changing sequence | Synonyms: transposable |
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permutableness | (noun) ability to change sequence | Synonyms: permutability, transposability |
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permutation | (noun) complete change in character or condition | - |
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(noun) the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements | - |
(noun) act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group | - |
(noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: replacement, substitution, switch, transposition |
permute | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: commute, transpose |
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smut | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, pornography |
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(noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism |
(noun) any fungus of the order Ustilaginales | Synonyms: smut fungus |
(noun) destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores | - |
(noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot |
(verb) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn | - |
(verb) stain with a dirty substance, such as soot | - |
(verb) become affected with smut | - |
(verb) make obscene | - |
smutch | (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smear, smudge |
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smuttily | (adverb) in a smutty manner | Synonyms: vulgarly |
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smuttiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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(noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: sootiness |
smutty | (adjective) soiled with dirt or soot | Synonyms: black |
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(adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty |
telecommuting | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: teleworking |
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transmutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: commutability |
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transmutable | (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: convertible, transformable, translatable |
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transmutation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transubstantiation |
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(noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: shift, transformation |
(noun) (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment) | - |
transmute | (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transform |
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(verb) alter the nature of (elements) | - |
(verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transubstantiate |
unmutilated | (adjective) free from physical or moral spots or stains | Synonyms: unblemished, unmarred |
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untransmutable | (adjective) not capable of being changed into something else | Synonyms: inconvertible |
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