| VU | <abbreviation> Volume unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| vugh | <chemical> A cavity in a lode. Synonym: vogle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vulcan | The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; answering to the Greek Hephaestus. Origin: L. Vulcanus, Volcanus: cf. Skr. Ulka a firebrand, meteor. Cf. Volcano. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vulcanian | 1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals. "Ingenious allusions to the Vulcanian panoply which Achilles lent to his feebler friend." (Macaulay) 2. <geology> Volcanic. Origin: L. Vulcanius. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vulcanisation | The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure. See: Vulcan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vulcanise | To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanisation. Vulcanised fibre, paper, paper pulp, or other fibre, chemically treated, as with metallic chlorides, so as to form a substance resembling ebonite in texture, hardness, etc. Knight. Vulcanised rubber, India rubber, vulcanised. Origin: Vulcanised; Vulcanising. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vulcanite | Hard rubber produced by vulcanising with a large proportion of sulphur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vulcanology | <study> The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc. See: Vulcan, and -logy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vulgar | 1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " "Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise." (Milton) "It might be more useful to the English reader . . . To write in our vulgar language." (Bp. Fell) "The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the new Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class." (Bancroft) 2. Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. "Like the vulgar sort of market men." "Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life." (Addison) "In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter." (Rambler) 3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners. "Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar." (Shak) Vulgar fraction. <mathematics> See Fraction. Origin: L. Vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude, the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. Vulgaire. Cf. Divulge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vulgaris | Ordinary; of the usual type. Origin: L. Fr. Vulgus, a crowd (05 Mar 2000) |
| vulgate | An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman Church admits to be authentic; so called from its common use in the Latin Church. The Vulgate was made by Jerome at the close of the 4th century. The Old Testament he translated mostly from the Hebrew and Chaldaic, and the new Testament he revised from an older Latin version. The Douay version, so called, is an English translation from the Vulgate. See Douay Bible. Origin: NL. Vulgata, from L. Vulgatus usual, common, p. P. Of vulgare to make general, or common, fr. Vulgus the multitude: cf. F. Vulgate. See Vulgar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vulnerable child syndrome | <syndrome> A reaction characterised by disturbance in psychosocial development, often occurring in children whose parents expect them to die prematurely. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vulnerable period | Vulnerable period of heart, a brief time during the cardiac cycle when stimuli are particularly likely to induce repetitive activity like tachycardia, flutter, or fibrillation which persists after the stimulus has ceased; for the ventricle, it occurs during the latter part of systole, during the relative refractory period coincident with the inscription of the latter half of the T wave of the electrocardiogram. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vulnerable phase | A period in the cardiac cycle during which an ectopic impulse may lead to repetitive activity such as flutter or fibrillation of the affected chamber. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vulnerary | Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions. "Such vulnerary remedies." . <medicine> A vulnerary remedy. Origin: Cf. F. Vulneraire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |