Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter O - Page 7
Occurrent (n.) One who meets; hence, an adversary. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Occurrent (n.) Anything that happens; an occurrence. [Obs.]
These we must meet with in obvious occurrents of the world. -- Sir T. Browne.
Occurrent (a.) 正在發生的；偶然發生的 Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.
Occurrent (a.) Presently occurring (either causally or incidentally); "technical terms are rarely occurrent in literature".
Occurrent (n.) An event that happens [syn: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event].
Occurse (n.) Same as Occursion. [Obs.] -- Bentley.
Occursion (n.) A meeting; a clash; a collision. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Compare: Collision
Collision (n.) [U] 碰撞；相撞；（意見、利益等的）衝突，抵觸 An instance of one moving object or person striking violently against another.
‘A midair collision between two aircraft.’
‘The device increases the chances of collision.’
Collision (n.) An instance of conflict between opposing ideas, interests, or factions.
‘A collision between experience and theory.’
‘Cultures in collision.’
Collision (n.) (Computing) An event of two or more records being assigned the same identifier or location in memory.
Collision (n.) An instance of simultaneous transmission by more than one node of a network.
On (a) collision course (ph.) Going in a direction that will lead to a collision with another moving object or person.
On (a) collision course (ph.) Adopting an approach that is certain to lead to conflict with another person or group.
‘The strikers are on a collision course with the government.’
Ocean (a.) Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream. -- Milton.
Ocean (n.) 海洋；海 [the S]；（常大寫）……洋 [C]；【口】大量，許多 [P1] The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea.
Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. -- Longfellow.
Ocean (n.) One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
Ocean (n.) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. -- Locke.
You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion. -- Lieber & Stoller (Poison Ivy: song lyrics, 1994).
Ocean (n.) A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
Ocean (n.) Anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume [syn: ocean, sea].
Ocean (n.) A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.
Ocean -- U.S. County in New Jersey
Population (2000): 510916
Housing Units (2000): 248711
Land area (2000): 636.276111 sq. miles (1647.947493 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 279.602257 sq. miles (724.166491 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 915.878368 sq. miles (2372.113984 sq. km)
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 39.918818 N, 74.210903 W
Headwords:
Ocean
Ocean, NJ
Ocean County
Ocean County, NJ
Oceanic (a.) 海洋的；海洋中所有的；大海似的；廣闊無垠的；（O-）大洋洲的；大洋洲人的 Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean.
Petrels are the most aerial and oceanic of birds. -- Darwin.
Oceanic (a.) Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants.
Oceanic (a.) Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean; "oceanic islands like Bermuda"; "oceanic currents"; "oceanic birds"; "pelagic organisms"; "pelagic whaling" [syn: oceanic, pelagic].
Oceanic (a.) Resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree; "the oceanic violence of his rage".
Oceanic (a.) Constituting or living in the open sea; "oceanic waters"; "oceanic life".
Oceanic (n.) An eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages [syn: Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian].
Oceanography (n.) A description of the ocean.
Oceanography (n.) The branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans [syn: oceanography, oceanology].
Oceanology (n.) 海洋資源研究；海洋學 That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
Oceanology (n.) The branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans [syn: oceanography, oceanology].
Oceanus (n.) (Gr. Myth.) The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.
Oceanus (n.) (Greek mythology) god of the stream that flowed around the earth in ancient mythology.
Ocellary (a.) Of or pertaining to ocelli.
Ocellate (a.) Same as Ocellated.
Ocellated (a.) Resembling an eye.
Ocellated (a.) Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny.
Ocellated turkey (Zool.), The wild turkey of Central America ({Meleagris ocellata).
Ocellated (a.) Having ocelli.
Ocelli (n. pl. ) of Ocellus
Ocellus (n.) (Zool.) A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.
Ocellus (n.) (Zool.) An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock.
Oceloid (a.) (Zool.) Resembling the ocelot.
Ocelot (n.) (Zool.) An American feline carnivore ({Felis pardalis). It ranges from the Southwestern United States to Patagonia. It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow. Ocher.
Ocelot (n.) Nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat [syn: ocelot, panther cat, Felis pardalis].
Ocher (n.) Alt. of Ochre.
Ochre (n.) (Min.) 【美】【礦】赭石；赭土；黃土色；赭色 A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.
Ochre (n.) (Min.) A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.
Ochre (n.) The color of ocher[1], varying around orange, from more yellowish to more reddish in tint.
Ocher (a.) 赭色的 Of a moderate orange-yellow color [syn: ocher, ochre].
Ocher (n.) A moderate yellow-orange to orange color [syn: ocher, ochre].
Ocher (n.) Any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment [syn: ocher, ochre].
Ocherous (a.) Alt. of Ochreous
Ochreous (a.) Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher; as, ocherous matter; ocherous soil.
Ochery (a.) Ocherous. [Written also ochrey, ochry.]
Occamy (n.) [A corruption of alchemy.] An alloy imitating gold or silver. [Written also ochimy, ochymy, etc.]
Ochimy (n.) [Obs.] See Occamy.
Ochlesis (n.) (Med.) A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof. -- G. Gregory.
Ochlocracy (n.) A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy ; mob rule. -- Hare. Ochlocratic
Ochlocracy (n.) A political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses [syn: mobocracy, ochlocracy].
Ochlocratic (a.) Alt. of Ochlocratical
Ochlocratical (a.) Of or pertaining to ochlocracy; having the form or character of an ochlocracy; mobocratic. -- Och`lo*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.
Ochraceous (a.) Ocherous.
Ocher, Ochre (n.) (Min.) A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.
Ocher, Ochre (n.) (Min.) A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.
Ocher, Ochre (n.) The color of ocher[1], varying around orange, from more yellowish to more reddish in tint.
Ochre (n.) (Min.) See Ocher.
Ochre (a.) Of a moderate orange-yellow color [syn: ocher, ochre].
Ochre (n.) Any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment [syn: ocher, ochre].
Ochre (n.) A moderate yellow-orange to orange color [syn: ocher, ochre].
Ochreaee (n. pl. ) of Ochrea.
Ochrea (n.) [L.] (Antiq.) A greave or legging.
Ochrea (n.) (Bot.) A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem. Ochreate
Ochreate (a.) Alt. of Ochreated.
Ochreated (a.) Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted.
A scholar undertook . . . to address himself ochreated unto the vice chancellor. -- Fuller.
Ochreated (a.) (Bot.) Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.
Ochreous (a.) See Ocherous.
Ochrey (a.) See Ochery.
Ocherous, Ochreous (a.) Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher; as, ocherous matter; ocherous soil.
Ochroleucous (a.) Yellowish white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow. -- Gray.
Ochery (a.) Ocherous. [Written also ochrey, ochry.]
Ochry (a.) See Ochery.
Occamy (n.) [A corruption of alchemy.] An alloy imitating gold or silver. [Written also ochimy, ochymy, etc.]
Ochymy (n.) [Obs.] See Occamy.
-ock () A suffix used to form diminutives; as, bullock, hillock.
Ocra (n.) (Bot.) See Okra.
Okra (n.) (Bot.) An annual plant ({Abelmoschus esculentus syn. Hibiscus esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. [Written also ocra and ochra.]
Okra (n.) The pods of the plant okra, used as a vegetable; also, a dish prepared with them; gumbo.
Ocrea (n.) [L.] See Ochrea. Ocreate
Ocreate (a.) Alt. of Ocreated.
Ocreated (a.) Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.
Octa- () A prefix meaning eight. See Octo-.
Octo-, Octa- () A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octolocular.
Octa, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 83
Housing Units (2000): 39
Land area (2000): 0.285003 sq. miles (0.738154 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.285003 sq. miles (0.738154 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57918
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.608877 N, 83.613192 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Octa, OH
Octa
Octachord (n.) (Mus.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones. [Also written octochord.]
Octad (n.) (Chem.) An atom or radical which has a valence of eight, or is octavalent.
Octad (n.) A group of eight things.
Octad (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one [syn: eight, 8, VIII, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, ogdoad, octonary, octet].
Octaedral (a.) See Octahedral.
Octaemeron (n.) (Eccl.) A fast of eight days before a great festival. -- Shipley.
Octagon (n.) (Geom.) A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles.
Octagon (n.) Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles.
Regular octagon, () One in which the sides are all equal, and the angles also are all equal.
Octagon (n.) An eight-sided polygon.
Octagonal (a.) Having eight sides and eight angles.
Octagonal (a.) Of or relating to or shaped like an octagon [syn: octangular, octagonal].
Octagynous (a.) (Bot.) Having eight pistils or styles; octogynous.
Octahedral (a.) Having eight faces or sides; of, pertaining to, or formed in, octahedrons; as, octahedral cleavage ; an octahedral crystal.
Octahedral borax (Chem.), Borax obtained from a saturated solution in octahedral crystals, which contain five molecules of water of crystallization; distinguished from common or prismatic borax.
Octahedral iron ore (Min.), magnetite.
Octahedrite (n.) (Min.) Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals.
Octahedron (n.) (Geom.) A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.
Octahedron (n.) Any polyhedron having eight plane faces.
Octamerous (a.) (Biol.) Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower; octamerous mesenteries in polyps.
Octameter (n.) (Pros.) A verse containing eight feet; as, Deep[bprime] in|to[bprime] the | dark[bprime]ness | peer[bprime]ing, | long[bprime] I | stood[bprime] there | wond'[bprime]ring, | fear[bprime]ing. -- Poe.
Octameter (n.) A verse line having eight metrical feet.
Octander (n.) One of the Octandria.
Octandria (n. pl.) (Bot.) A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil. Octandrian.
Octandrian (a.) Alt. of Octandrous
Octandrous (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Octandria; having eight distinct stamens.
Octane (n.) (Chem.) Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarbons ({C8H18) of the methane (paraffin) series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of gasoline or ligroin.
Octane (n.) Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
Octangular (a.) Having eight angles; eight-angled. -- Oc*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.
Octangular (a.) Of or relating to or shaped like an octagon [syn: octangular, octagonal].
Octant (n.) (Geom.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
Octant (n.) (Astron. & Astrol.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
Octant (n.) An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O? but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.
Octant (n.) (Math. & Crystallog.) One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes.
Octant (n.) A measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body; similar to a sextant but with 45 degree calibration.
Octapla (prop. n.; etymol. pl., but syntactically sing.) A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.
Octaroon (n.) See Octoroon.
Octastyle (a.) See Octostyle.
Octateuch (n.) A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament. [R.]
Octavalent (a.) (Chem.) Having a valence of eight; capable of being combined with, exchanged for, or compared with, eight atoms of hydrogen; -- said of certain atoms or radicals.
Octave (a.) 八個一組的；八行的；【音】高八度音的Consisting of eight; eight. -- Dryden.
Octave (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. "The octaves of Easter." -- Jer. Taylor.
Octave (n.) (Mus.) 八度音（階） The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
Octave (n.) (Mus.) The whole diatonic scale itself.
Note: The ratio of a musical tone to its octave above is 1:2 as regards the number of vibrations producing the tones.
Octave (n.) (Poet.) 八行（體）詩；十四行詩的前八行 The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
With mournful melody it continued this octave. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Double octave. (Mus.) See under Double.
Octave flute (Mus.), A small flute, the tones of which range an octave higher than those of the German or ordinary flute; -- called also piccolo. See Piccolo.
Octave (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
Octave (n.) A feast day and the seven days following it.
Octave (n.) A musical interval of eight tones [syn: octave, musical octave].
Octave (n.) A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse.
Octave () A high-level interactive language by John W. Eaton, with help from many others, like MATLAB, primarily intended for numerical computations. Octave provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
Octave can do arithmetic for real and complex scalars and matrices, solve sets of nonlinear algebraic equations, integrate functions over finite and infinite intervals, and integrate systems of ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations.
Octave has been compiled and tested with g++ and libg++ on a SPARCstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.2, an IBM RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.5, DEC Alpha systems running OSF/1 1.3 and 3.0, a DECstation 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.2a, and Intel 486 systems running Linux. It should work on most other Unix systems with g++ and libg++.
Octave is distributed under the GNU General Public License. It requires gnuplot, a C++ compiler and Fortran compiler or f2c translator.
(2000-06-27)
Octavos (n. pl. ) of Octavo.
Octavo (n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 8vo or 8 [deg].
Octavo (a.) Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc.
Octavo (n.) The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves [syn: octavo, eightvo, 8vo].
Octene (n.) (Chem.) Same as Octylene.
Octennial (a.) Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years. -- Johnson. -- Oc*ten"ni*al*ly, adv.
Octet (n.) (Mus.) A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.
Octet (n.) A group of eight singers or eight musicians.
Octet (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one [syn: eight, 8, VIII, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, ogdoad, octonary, octet].
Octet (n.) Eight performers or singers who perform together [syn: octet, octette].
Octet (n.) A set of eight similar things considered as a unit [syn: octet, octette].
Octet (n.) Eight people considered as a unit [syn: octet, octette, eightsome].
Octet (n.) A musical composition written for eight performers [syn: octet, octette].
Octet () Eight bits. This term is used in networking, in preference to byte, because some systems use the term "byte" for things that are not 8 bits long. (1995-03-03)
Octic (a.) (Math.) Of the eighth degree or order. -- n. (Alg.) A quantic of the eighth degree.
Octic (n.) A quantic of the eighth degree.
Octile (n.) Same as Octant, 2. [R.]
Octillion (n.) According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration.
Octillion (n.) The number that is represented as a one followed by 27 zeros.
Octo- () Alt. of Octa-.
Octa- () A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octodecimal, octolocular.
Octoate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of an octoic acid; a caprylate.