| quartane | <chemistry> Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms. Origin: L. Quartus the fourth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| quartation | <chemistry> The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold. Synonym: inquartation. Compare Parting. Origin: L. Quartus the fourth: cf. F. Quartation. So called because usually enough silver is added to make the amount of gold in the alloyed button about one fourth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quartene | <chemistry> Same as Butylene. Origin: Ouartane + ethylene. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quartenylic | <chemistry> Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colourless liquid; so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Synonym: isocrotonic acid. Origin: Quartene + -yl + -ic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quarter | 1. One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. Hence, specifically: The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal. <astronomy> One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. When two coats of arms are united upon one escutcheon, as in case of marriage, the first and fourth quarters display one shield, the second and third the other. See Quarter. One of the four parts into which the horizon is regarded as divided; a cardinal point; a direction' principal division; a region; a territory. "Scouts each coast light-armed scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe." (Milton) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris. The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11 deg 15', that is, about 2 deg 49'; called also quarter point. 2. Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location. "Swift to their several quarters hasted then The cumbrous elements." (Milton) Hence, specifically: A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; usually in the plural. Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; usually in the plural. "The banter turned as to what quarters each would find." (W. Irving) A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters. Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes. "He magnified his own clemency, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives." (Clarendon) "Cocks and lambs . . . At the mercy of cats and wolves . . . Must never expect better quarter." (L'Estrange) 3. Friendship; amity; concord. To keep quarter, to keep one's proper place, and so be on good terms with another. "In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom." (Shak) "I knew two that were competitors for the secretary's place, . . . And yet kept good quarter between themselves." (Bacon) False quarter, a cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot. Fifth quarter, the hide and fat; a butcher's term. On the quarter, to accept as prisoner, on submission in battle; to forbear to kill, as a vanquished enemy. To keep quarter. See Quarter. Origin: F. Quartier, L. Quartarius a fourth part, fr. Quartus the fourth. See Quart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quarter evil | 1. A notorious gambler. 2. A disease among calves and sheep, characterised by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quarter-crack | See: sand-crack. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quarter-wave plate | <microscopy> A compensator giving a retardation of about 130 nm, and a phase shift of 1/4 ~, thus constituting a device used with a polarizer and analyser designed to produce circularly polarized light. (05 Aug 1998) |
| quartering | 1. A station. 2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters. 3. The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments. One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer. 4. Quartering block, a block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quartermaster | 1. An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. 2. A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Quartermaster general, in the United States a staff officer, who has the rank of brigadier general and is the chief officer in the quartermaster's department; in England, an officer of high rank stationed at the War Office having similar duties; also, a staff officer, usually a general officer, accompanying each complete army in the field. Quartermaster sergeant. See Sergeant. Origin: Quarter + master: cf. F. Quartier-maitre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quarternary structure | The three-dimensional structure of a complex protein, this especially refers to the way the subunits fit together. (09 Oct 1997) |
| quartic | <mathematics> A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quartile | <astronomy> Same as Quadrate. Origin: F.quartile aspect, fr. L. Quartus the fourth. See Quart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quartine | <botany> A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside. Origin: F, fr. L. Quartus the fourth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quartisect | Synonym: quadrisect. Origin: L. Quartus, fourth, + seco, pp. Sectus, to cut (05 Mar 2000) |
| quantitative ultrasound |
a test that uses sound waves to measure bone density in the heel, shinbone, and kneecap
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| quadriplegia |
loss of movement and sensation in all four limbs.
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| quarter |
A term that describes a common length of courses offered by a school. Quarters usually last about 10 weeks. In these schools, courses are offered four times a year, including summer session.
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| quadritubercular |
An upper cheek tooth bearing four cusps
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| quantitative |
Expressed in numerical values. See qualitative.
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| qua | of high social status |
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| qua | of superior grade |
| qua | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
| qua | your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort) |
| qua | uneasiness about the fitness of an action |
| qua | a mild state of nausea |
| qua | any of several plants of the genus Camassia |
| qua | genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs |
| qua | tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves |
| qua | red Australian fruit |
| qua | Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed |
| qua | state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options |