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aXe (n.) A text editor for the X Window System. No longer maintained. (1998-03-13)
Axe () Alt. of Axeman
Axeman () See {Ax}, {Axman}.
Ax, Axe, (n.) [C]（長柄）斧；斧形錘；【口】解僱；退學 [the S] A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
Note: The ancient battle-ax had sometimes a double edge.
Note: The word is used adjectively or in combination; as, axhead or ax head; ax helve; ax handle; ax shaft; ax-shaped; axlike.
Note: This word was originally spelt with e, axe; and so also was nearly every corresponding word of one syllable: as, flaxe, taxe, waxe, sixe, mixe, pixe, oxe, fluxe, etc. This superfluous e is not dropped; so that, in more than a hundred words ending in x, no one thinks of retaining the e except in axe. Analogy requires its exclusion here.
Note: "The spelling ax is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which has of late become prevalent." -- New English Dict. (Murray).
Axe (n.) An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle [syn: {ax}, {axe}].
Axe (v.) 用斧劈；用斧修整；【口】解僱 Chop or split with an ax; "axe wood" [syn: {axe}, {ax}].
Axe (v.) Terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it" [syn: {ax}, {axe}].
Axe (n.) Used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means "chopping." It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for building. It is the rendering of a different word in Judg. 9:48, 1 Sam. 13:20, 21, Ps. 74:5, which refers to its sharpness. In 2 Kings 6:5 it is the translation of a word used with reference to its being made of iron. In Isa. 44:12 the Revised Version renders by "axe" the Hebrew _maatsad_, which means a "hewing" instrument. In the Authorized Version it is rendered "tongs." It is also used in Jer. 10:3, and rendered "axe." The "battle-axe" (army of Medes and Persians) mentioned in Jer. 51:20 was probably, as noted in the margin of the Revised Version, a "maul" or heavy mace. In Ps. 74:6 the word so rendered means "feller." (See the figurative expression in Matt. 3:10; Luke 3:9.)
AXE (Acronyms) Application eXecution Environment.
Axial (a.) 軸的；軸周圍的；成軸的；【機】軸向的；【植】中軸的 Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
To take on an axial, and not an equatorial, direction. -- Nichol.
Axial (a.) (Anat.) Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.
{Axial line} (Magnetism), The line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. -- Faraday.
Axial (a.) Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
Axial (a.) Relating to or attached to the axis; "axial angle" [syn: {axile}, {axial}].
Axial (a.) Situated on or along or in the direction of an axis.
Axially (adv.) （成）軸地；軸向地 In relation to, or in a line with, an axis; in the axial (magnetic) line.
Axially (adv.) With respect to an axis; "the jet was directed axially toward the cathode".
Axil (n.) (Bot.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. -- Gray.
Axil (n.) the upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
Axile (a.) Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed. -- Gray.
Axile (a.) Relating to or attached to the axis; "axial angle" [syn: axile, axial].
Axillae (n. pl. ) of Axilla
Axilla (n.) (Anat.) 【解】腋窩；腋下；【植】葉腋 The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
Axilla (n.) (Bot.) An axil.
Axilla (n.) The hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder; "they were up to their armpits in water" [syn: armpit, axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa].
Axillar (a.) 【解】腋下的；【植】葉腋的；腋生的 Axillary.
Axillaries (n. pl.) Alt. of Axillars
Axillars (n. pl.) 【鳥】腋羽 Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.
Axillary (a.) (Anat.) 【解】腋窩的 Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.
Axillary (a.) (Bot.) 【植】葉腋的，腋生的 Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. "Axillary buds." -- Gray.
Axillary (a.) Of or relating to the axil [syn: axillary, alar].
Axillary (a.) Of or relating to the armpit; "axillary gland".
Axillary (a.) (Anatomy) Relating to the armpit or a corresponding part.
‘Enlargement of the axillary lymph nodes.’
Axillary (a.) (Botany) In or growing from an axil.
‘Axillary buds.’
Often contrasted with Terminal.
Axillary (n.) (Ornithology) （鳥翼的）腋窩的羽翼 Feathers growing from the axilla.
Compare: Ornithology
Ornithology (n.) [Mass noun] 鳥類學 The scientific study of birds.
Axinite (n.) (Min.) 【礦】斧石 A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.
Axinomancy (n.) 斧卜術A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.
Axiom (n.) (Logic & Math.) 【邏】【數】公理；自明之理；原理，原則，規律；格言 A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."
Axiom (n.) An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.
Syn: Axiom, Maxim, Aphorism, Adage.
Usage: An axiom is a self-evident truth which is taken for granted as the basis of reasoning. A maxim is a guiding principle sanctioned by experience, and relating especially to the practical concerns of life.
An aphorism is a short sentence pithily expressing some valuable and general truth or sentiment. An adage is a saying of long-established authority and of universal application. Axiomatic
Axiom (n.) A saying that is widely accepted on its own merits [syn: maxim, axiom].
Axiom (n.) (Logic) A proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident
Axiomatic (a.) Alt. of Axiomatical
Axiomatical (a.) 自明之理的；公理的；原則的；格言的；充滿格言的 Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." -- Johnson.
The stores of axiomatic wisdom. -- I. Taylor.
Axiomatic (a.) Evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident" [syn: axiomatic, self-evident, taken for granted(p)].
Axiomatic (a.) Containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom" [syn: axiomatic, aphoristic].
Axiomatic (a.) Of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic physics"; "the postulational method was applied to geometry" -- S. S. Stevens [syn: axiomatic, axiomatical, postulational].
Axiomatically (adv.) 照公理；自明地 By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.
Axiomatically (adv.) On the basis of axioms; "this is axiomatically given".
Axis (n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).
Axes (n. pl. ) of Axis
Axis (n.) [C] 軸；軸線；（植物的）主莖；（透鏡的）光軸 A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.
Axis (n.) (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.
Axis (n.) (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. -- Gray.
Axis (n.) (Anat.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.
Axis (n.) (Anat.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.
Axis (n.) (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.
Axis (n.) (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any design.
Anticlinal axis (Geol.), A line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides.
Synclinal axis, A line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley.
Axis cylinder (Anat.), The neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also axis band, axial fiber, and cylinder axis.
Axis in peritrochio, The wheel and axle, one of the mechanical powers.
Axis of a curve (Geom.), A straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a principal axis, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the minor axis, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the transverse axis and the conjugate axis.
Axis of a lens, The straight line passing through its center and perpendicular to its surfaces.
Axis of a microscope or Axis of a telescope, The straight line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses which compose it.
Axes of co["o]rdinates in a plane, Two straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique.
Axes of co["o]rdinates in space, The three straight lines in which the co["o]rdinate planes intersect each other.
Axis of a balance, That line about which it turns.
Axis of oscillation, Of a pendulum, a right line passing through the center about which it vibrates, and perpendicular to the plane of vibration.
Axis of polarization, The central line around which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. -- Brewster.
Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), A straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution.
Axis of symmetry (Geom.), Any line in a plane figure which divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other part.
Axis of the equator, ecliptic, horizon (Or other circle considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies), the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. -- Hutton.
Axis of the Ionic capital (Arch.), A line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute.
Neutral axis (Mech.), The line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression, exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder.
Optic axis of a crystal, The direction in which a ray of transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial or biaxial.
Optic axis, Visual axis (Opt.), The straight line passing through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the surface of the eye.
Radical axis of two circles (Geom.), The straight line perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles shall be equal to each other.
Spiral axis (Arch.), The axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without.
Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa.
Axis (n.) [L.] (Zool.) The spotted deer ({Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).
Axis (n.) A straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions.
Axis (n.) The main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged
Axis (n.) In World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations; "the Axis opposed the Allies in World War II".
Axis (n.) A group of countries in special alliance [syn: bloc, axis]
Axis (n.) The 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head [syn: axis, axis vertebra].
Axis (n.) The center around which something rotates [syn: axis, axis of rotation].
Axle (n.) [C]（機器的）軸；車軸，輪軸 The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
Axle (n.) A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
Axle (n.) An axis; as, the sun's axle.
Had from her axle torn. The steadfast earth. -- Milton.
Note: Railway axles are called leading and trailing from their position in the front or in the rear of a car or truck respectively.
Axle (n.) A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
Axle (n.) An early string processing language in which a program consists of an "assertion table" specifying patterns and an "imperative table" specifying replacements.
Axle (n.) An Axiomatic Language for String Transformations. K. Cohen et al, CACM 8(11):657-661, Nov 1965 (2009-02-10)
Axle box () A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes.
Axle box () The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.
Note: In railway construction, the axle guard, or pedestal, with the superincumbent weight, rests on the top of the box (usually with a spring intervening), and holds it in place by flanges. The box rests upon the journal bearing and key, which intervene between the inner top of the box and the axle.
Axled (a.) Having an axle; -- used in composition.
Axle guard () The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.
Axletree (n.) 車軸 A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.
Axletree (n.) A spindle or axle of a wheel. [Obs.]
Axletree (n.) A dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve.
Axmen (n. pl. ) of Axman
Axman (n.) 用斧者；樵夫 One who wields an ax.
Axminster (n.) or Axminster carpet [More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made.
Axminster (n.) A similar but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of better material.
Axolotl (n.) (Zool.) An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico; the siredon.
Note: When it breeds in captivity the young develop into true salamanders of the genus Amblystoma. This also occurs naturally under favorable conditions, in its native localities; although it commonly lives and breeds in a larval state, with persistent external gills. See Siredon.
Axolotl (n.) Larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing [syn: axolotl, mud puppy, Ambystoma mexicanum].
Axstone (n.) (Min.) A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.
Axtree (n.) Axle or axletree. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Axunge (n.) Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.
Ay (interj.) Ah! alas! "Ay me! I fondly dream `Had ye been there.'" -- Milton.
Ay (adv.) Same as Aye.
Ayah (n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid.
Aye (adv.) Alt. of Ay
Ay (adv.) Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.
Note: This word is written I in the early editions of Shakespeare and other old writers.
Aye (n.) An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "To call for the ayes and noes;" "The ayes have it."
Aye (a.) Alt. of Ay
Ay (a.) Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
For his mercies aye endure. -- Milton.
For aye, always; Forever; eternally.
Aye-aye (n.) (Zool.) A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.
Aye-aye (n.) Nocturnal lemur with long bony fingers and rodent-like incisor teeth closely related to the lemurs [syn: aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis].
Compare: Houseleek
Houseleek (n.) (Bot.) A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum ({Sempervivum tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.
Ayegreen (n.) (Bot.) The houseleek ({Sempervivum tectorum). -- Halliwell. Ayein, Ayen
Ayen (adv. & prep.) Alt. of Ayeins
Ayein (adv. & prep.) Alt. of Ayeins
Ayeins (adv. & prep.) Again; back against. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ayenward (adv.) Backward. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ayle (n.) A grandfather. [Obs.]
Writ of Ayle, An ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.
Ayme (n.) The utterance of the ejaculation "Ay me !" [Obs.] See Ay, interj. "Aymees and hearty heigh-hoes." -- J. Fletcher.
Ayond (prep. & adv.) Beyond. [North of Eng.]
Ayont (prep. & adv.) Beyond. [Scot.] Ayrie
Ayrie (n.) Alt. of Ayry
Ayry (n.) See Aerie. -- Drayton.
Ayrshire (n.) (Agric.) 蘇格蘭亞爾郡乳牛 One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.
Ayrshire (n.) Hardy breed of dairy cattle from Ayr, Scotland.
Ayrshire, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 202
Housing Units (2000): 98
Land area (2000): 0.208116 sq. miles (0.539018 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.208116 sq. miles (0.539018 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04105
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.038506 N, 94.834712 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50515
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Ayrshire
Ayuntamiento (n.) In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.
Azaleas (n. pl. ) of Azalea; (Bot.) A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from {Rhododendron}.
Compare: Azalea
Azalea (n.) 【植】杜鵑花 A deciduous flowering shrub of the heath family with clusters of brightly colored, sometimes fragrant flowers. Technically classified as rhododendrons, azaleas are characteristically smaller than most other rhododendrons.
Genus Rhododendron, family Ericaceae: many cultivars
‘These are gardens for all seasons with the rhododendron dell, the azaleas and flowering cherry trees in spring, and the rose gardens in summer.’
Compare: Rhododendron
Rhododendron (n.) 【植】杜鵑花 A shrub or small tree of the heath family, with large clusters of bell-shaped flowers and typically with large evergreen leaves, widely grown as an ornamental.
Genus Rhododendron, family Ericaceae: many cultivars
‘Old Jack Frost and harsh winter winds are drying out plants with shallow roots, such as azaleas and rhododendrons.’
Azarole (n.) (Bot.) 南歐山楂果 The Neapolitan medlar ({Crataegus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit. Azedarach.
Azedarach (n.) (Bot.) 【植】楝樹；楝皮（昔用作催吐藥） A handsome tree ({Melia azedarach) of the mahogany family, native to Northern India and China, having long clusters of fragrant purple blossoms and small ornamental but inedible yellow fruits. It has been naturalized as a shade tree and is common in the southern United States; -- called also, chinaberry, China tree, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.
Syn: chinaberry, chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac, pride-of-India, azedarach, Melia azederach, Melia azedarach.
Compare: Chinaberry
Chinaberry (n.) (pl. Chinaberries) 【植】棟樹；棟樹果 A tall tree of the mahogany family native to Asia and Australasia, bearing fragrant lilac flowers and yellow berries. It has become naturalized in parts of North America.
Melia azedarach, family Meliaceae.
‘On one side it was anchored by a huge chinaberry tree, on the other by a towering mimosa.’
Chinaberry (n.) (pl. Chinaberries) The fruit of the chinaberry tree, used as beads and to make insecticides.
‘A rosary made of chinaberries.’
Azedarach (n.) (Med.) The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic. Azerbaidzhan
Azimuth (n.) (Astron. & Geodesy) 【天】方位角；地平經度；【測】方位 The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
Azimuth (n.) (Astron. & Geodesy) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.
Note: In trigonometrical surveying, it is customary to reckon the azimuth of a line from the south point of the horizon around by the west from 0[deg] to 360[deg].
Azimuth circle, or Vertical circle, One of the great circles of the sphere intersecting each other in the zenith and nadir, and cutting the horizon at right angles. -- Hutton.
Azimuth compass, A compass resembling the mariner's compass, but having the card divided into degrees instead of rhumbs, and having vertical sights; used for taking the magnetic azimuth of a heavenly body, in order to find, by comparison with the true azimuth, the variation of the needle.
Azimuth dial, A dial whose stile or gnomon is at right angles to the plane of the horizon. -- Hutton.
Magnetic azimuth, An arc of the horizon, intercepted between the vertical circle passing through any object and the magnetic meridian. This is found by observing the object with an azimuth compass.
Azimuth (n.) The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian [syn: azimuth, AZ].
Azimuthal (a.) 方位角的 Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.
Azimuthal error, Of a transit instrument, its deviation in azimuth from the plane of the meridian.
Azimuthal (a.) Of or relating to or in azimuth.
Azo- () (Chem.) A combining form of azote.
Azo- () (Chem.) Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.
Azo- () (Chem.) Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-.
Azobenzene (n.) (Chem.) A substance (C6H5.N2.C6H5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible.
Azoic (a.) Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks.
Azoic age (Geol.), The age preceding the existence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age being understood. See Arch[ae]an, and Eozoic.
Azoic (a.) Before the appearance of life; "azoic rocks contain not organic remains".
Azoleic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid. [R.]
Azonic (a.) Confined to no zone or region; not local.
Azonic (a.) Not restricted to any particular zone or region.
Azorian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Azores.
Azorian (n.) A native of the Azores.
Compare: Nitrogen
Nitrogen (n.) (Chem.) A colorless nonmetallic element of atomic number 7, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume in the form of molecular nitrogen ({N2). It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14.007. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva, and boils at -195.8 [deg] C at atmospheric pressure. Liquid nitrogen is used as a refrigerant to store delicate materials, such as bacteria, cells, and other biological materials.
Azote (n.) Same as Nitrogen. [R.]
Azote (n.) [Sp.] A switch or whip. [Sp. Amer.]
Azoth (n.) (Alchemy) The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.
Azoth (n.) (Alchemy) The universal remedy of Paracelsus.
Azotic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid. [R.] -- Carpenter. Azotine
Azotic (a.) Of or containing nitrogen; "nitric acid" [syn: azotic, nitric, nitrous].
Azotite (n.) (Chem.) A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite. [R.]
Azotized (imp. & p. p.) of Azotize
Azotizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Azotize
Azotize (v. t.) To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.
Azotometer (n.) (Chem.) An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.
Azotous (a.) Nitrous; as, azotous acid. [R.]
Aztec (a.) Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519.
Aztec (n.) One of the Aztec race or people.
Aztec (n.) A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
Aztec, NM -- U.S. city in New Mexico
Population (2000): 6378
Housing Units (2000): 2545
Land area (2000): 9.727566 sq. miles (25.194279 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.075668 sq. miles (0.195980 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.803234 sq. miles (25.390259 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05780
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 36.826046 N, 107.995595 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 87410
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Aztec, NM
Aztec
Azure (a.) 天藍色的，蔚藍的 Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
{Azure stone} (Min.), 天藍石（一種寶石） The lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.
Azure (n.) The lapis lazuli. [Obs.]