| atomization | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomisation, fragmentation |
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| (noun) annihilation by reducing something to atoms | Synonyms: atomisation |
| atomize | (verb) break up into small particles | Synonyms: atomise |
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| (verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, nuke, zap |
| (verb) spray very finely | Synonyms: atomise |
| atomizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| atonal | (adjective) characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality | Synonyms: unkeyed |
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| atonalism | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonality |
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| atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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| atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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| atonally | (adverb) without tonality | - |
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| atone | (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: repent |
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| (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, expiate |
| atonement | (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: expiation, propitiation |
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| (noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: expiation, satisfaction |
| atonia | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonicity, atony |
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| atonic | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: unaccented |
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| (adjective) characterized by a lack of tonus | - |
| atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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| atony | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity |
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| atop | (adverb) on, to, or at the top | - |
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| atopognosia | (noun) absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch | Synonyms: atopognosis |
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| atopognosis | (noun) absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch | Synonyms: atopognosia |
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| atopy | (noun) an allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact | Synonyms: atopic allergy, immediate allergy, type I allergic reaction |
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| atorvastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Lipitor) that is effective in lowering triglycerides; potent in reducing LDL cholesterol because higher doses can be given | Synonyms: Lipitor |
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| atoxic | (adjective) not producing or resulting from poison | Synonyms: nontoxic |
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| attenuator | (noun) an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal | - |
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| attestator | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestor, witness |
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| attestor | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, witness |
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| attorn | (verb) acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord | - |
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| attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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| attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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| attosecond | (noun) one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond | - |
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| attractor | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, magnet |
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| (noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attracter |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, draw, drawing card |
| auctorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: authorial |
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| auditor | (noun) a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization | - |
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| (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, hearer, listener |
| (noun) a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit | - |
| auditorium | (noun) the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits | - |
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| auditory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditive |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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| auto | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: automobile, car, machine, motorcar |
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| autoalarm | (noun) a radio receiving device used on ships that rings an alarm bell when a distress signal is received. | Synonyms: auto-alarm |
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| autoantibody | (noun) an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it | - |
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| autobahn | (noun) an expressway in a German-speaking country | - |
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| autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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| autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
| autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
| autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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| autobus | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| autocatalysis | (noun) catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction | - |
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| autocatalytic | (adjective) relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis | - |
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| autochthon | (noun) the earliest known inhabitants of a region | - |
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| autochthonal | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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| autochthonic | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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| autochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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| (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, endemic, indigenous |
| autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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| autoclave | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: steriliser, sterilizer |
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| (verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
| autocoid | (noun) any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification | Synonyms: autacoid |
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| autocorrect | (noun) a system for automatically correcting text | - |
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| autocracy | (noun) a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual | - |
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| (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autarchy |
| autocrat | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: despot, tyrant |
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| autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| autocratically | (adverb) in an autocratic manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: dictatorially, magisterially |
| autocue | (noun) a device that displays words for people to read | Synonyms: prompter |
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| autodidact | (noun) a person who has taught himself | - |
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| autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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| autoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: homoecious |
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| autoerotic | (adjective) sexually satisfying yourself (as by masturbation) | - |
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| autoeroticism | (noun) using your own body as a sexual object | Synonyms: autoerotism |
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| autoerotism | (noun) using your own body as a sexual object | Synonyms: autoeroticism |
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| autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autofocus | (noun) an optical device for focussing a camera or other instrument automatically | - |
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| autogamic | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamous |
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| autogamous | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamic |
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| autogamy | (noun) self-fertilization in plants | - |
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| autogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| autogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to autogenesis | - |
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| autogenic | (adjective) originating within the body | Synonyms: autogenous |
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| autogenics | (noun) training patients in self-induced relaxation | Synonyms: autogenic therapy, autogenic training |
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| autogenous | (adjective) originating within the body | Synonyms: autogenic |
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| autogeny | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogenesis, spontaneous generation |
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| autogiro | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogyro, gyroplane |
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| autograft | (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autoplasty |
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| autograph | (noun) something written by one's own hand | - |
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| (noun) a person's own signature | Synonyms: John Hancock |
| (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
| autographed | (adjective) bearing an autograph | - |
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| autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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| autogyro | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogiro, gyroplane |
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| autoicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate clusters on the same plant | - |
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| autoimmune | (adjective) of or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body | - |
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| autoimmunity | (noun) production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions | - |
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| autoinjector | (noun) a hypodermic syringe to use in injecting yourself with a liquid | - |
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| autolatry | (noun) the worship of yourself | Synonyms: idiolatry, self-worship |
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| autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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| autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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| autologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of the selfsame individual | - |
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| autolysis | (noun) lysis of plant or animal tissue by an internal process | Synonyms: self-digestion |
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| autolytic | (adjective) of or relating to self-digestion | - |
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| automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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| automat | (noun) a cafeteria where food is served from machines | - |
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| (noun) a vending machine from which you can get food | - |
| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| automated | (adjective) operated by automation | Synonyms: machine-controlled, machine-driven |
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| automatic | (adjective) operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control | - |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: reflex, reflexive |
| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
| (noun) self-loading rifle capable of automatic fire | Synonyms: automatic rifle, machine rifle |
| (noun) a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released | Synonyms: automatic pistol |
| automatically | (adverb) in a reflex manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: mechanically |
| automation | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: mechanisation, mechanization |
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| (noun) equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation | - |
| (noun) the condition of being automatically operated or controlled | - |
| automatise | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatize |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatize |