| negatron | Term used for an electron to emphasize its negative charge in contradistinction to the positive charge carried by the otherwise similar positron. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| neginoth | Stringed instruments. "To the chief musician on Neginoth." (Ps. Iv. 9heading)) Origin: Heb. Neginoth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Negishi virus | One of the group B arboviruses (genus Flavivirus) of the tick-borne encephalitis complex, isolated from fatal infections in Japan. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neglectful | Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. "A cold and neglectful countenance." (Locke) "Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it." (Arbuthnot) Neglect"fully, Neglect"fulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| negligence | The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness. 2. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. "remarking his beauties, . I must also point out his negligences and defects." (Blair) 3. The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly. Contributory negligence. See Contributory. Synonym: Neglect, inattention, heedlessness, disregard, slight. Negligence, Neglect. These two words are freely interchanged in our older writers; but a distinction has gradually sprung up between them. As now generally used, negligence is the habit, and neglect the act, of leaving things undone or unattended to. We are negligent as a general trait of character; we are guilty of neglect in particular cases, or in reference to individuals who had a right to our attentions. Origin: F. Negligence, L. Negligentia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| negligent | Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterised by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." "He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor." (Rambler) Synonym: Careles, heedless, neglectful, regardless, thoughtless, indifferent, inattentive, remiss. Origin: F. Negligent, L. Negligens,p.pr. Of negligere. See Neglect. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| negotiating | The process of bargaining in order to arrive at an agreement or compromise on a matter of importance to the parties involved. It also applies to the hearing and determination of a case by a third party chosen by the parties in controversy, as well as the interposing of a third party to reconcile the parties in controversy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| negotiation | 1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. Etc. 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. "Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies." (Evelyn) 3. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent. "An important negotiation with foreign powers." (Macaulay) Origin: L. Negotiatio: cf. F. Negociation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| negotiatrix | A woman who negotiates. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| negress | Origin: Cf. F. Negrese, fem. Of negre a negro. See Negro. A black woman; a female negro. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Negri bodies | Eosinophilic, sharply outlined, pathognomonic inclusion body's (2 to 10 um in diameter) found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing the virus of rabies, especially in Ammon's horn of the hippocampus. Synonym: Negri corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Negri body | Acidophilic cytoplasmic inclusion (mass of nucleocapsids) characteristic of rabies virus infection. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Negri corpuscles | Eosinophilic, sharply outlined, pathognomonic inclusion body's (2 to 10 um in diameter) found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing the virus of rabies, especially in Ammon's horn of the hippocampus. Synonym: Negri corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Negri, Adelchi | <person> Italian physician, 1876-1912. See: Negri bodies, Negri corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| negrita | <zoology> A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida. Origin: Sp, blackish, fem. Of negrito, dim. Of negro black. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |