| overt homosexuality | Homosexual inclinations consciously experienced and expressed in actual homosexual behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| overthwart | Across; from alde to side of. "Huge trees overthwart one another." 1. Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors." 2. Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. "Overthwart humor." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Overton, Charles | <person> German biologist in Sweden, 1865-1933. See: Meyer-Overton rule, Meyer-Overton theory of narcosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| overtone | Any of the tones, other than the lowest or fundamental tone, of which a sound is composed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| overturning moment | <radiobiology> Torque (moment) on a toroidal field coil in a tokamak, about the device's radial direction, that results from out-of-plane forces on the coil due to the interactions between the coil current and the poloidal (vertical) magnetic field. This torque tends to overturn the vertical toroidal field coil, and must be engineered against. (09 Oct 1997) |