| dome | 1. A building; a house; an edifice; used chiefly in poetry. "Approach the dome, the social banquet share." (Pope) 2. A cupola formed on a large scale. "The Italians apply the term il duomo to the principal church of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church Dom; and it is supposed that the word in its present English sense has crept into use from the circumstance of such buildings being frequently surmounted by a cupola." 3. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc. 4. <chemistry> A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form. If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome. Origin: F. Dome, It. Duomo, fr. L. Domus a house, domus Dei or Domini, house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. House, to build, and E. Timber. See Timber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dome cell | One of the rounded surface cell's of the periderm layer of the foetal epidermis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| domesday | A day of judgment. See Doomsday. Domesday Book, the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. Alternative forms: Doomsday Book. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domestic | 1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. "His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong." (Macaulay) 4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. 3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. 4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals. 5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc. Origin: L. Domesticus, fr. Domus use: cf. F. Domestique. See 1st Dome. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domestic soap | Soap made with sodium hydroxide and a purified animal fat consisting chiefly of stearin; used in pharmacy in the preparation of certain liniments. Synonym: curd soap, domestic soap, tallow soap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| domestic violence | Deliberate, often repetitive, physical abuse by one family member against another: marital partners, parents, children, siblings, or any other member of a household. (12 Dec 1998) |
| domesticate | 1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant. Origin: LL. Domesticatus, p. P. Of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See Domestic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| domify | 1. <astronomy> To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. 2. To tame; to domesticate. Origin: L. Domus + -fy: cf. F. Domifier. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dominance | <genetics> The full phenotypic expression of a gene in both heterozygotes and homozygotes. Origin: L. Dominari = to govern (18 Nov 1997) |
| dominance hierarchy | A social situation in which one organism dominates all below it, the next all below it, and so on down to the organism dominated by all; e.g., the pecking order in apes, seals, barnyard hens, and other species. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dominance measure | The means or method by which dominance is established, including areal coverage and basal area, the total dominance measure is the sum total of the dominance measure values for all species comprising a given stratum. (09 Oct 1997) |
| dominance threshold number | The number at which 50 percent of the total dominance measure for a given stratum is represented by one or more plant species when ranked in descending order of abundance (i.e., from most to least abundant), when this number is immediately exceeded, the dominant species for the stratum are realised. (09 Oct 1997) |
| dominance, cerebral | Dominance of one cerebral hemisphere over the other in cerebral functions. (12 Dec 1998) |