English Dictionary: epical | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Eaves \Eaves\, n. pl. [OE. evese, pl. eveses, AS. efese eaves, brim, brink; akin to OHG. obisa, opasa, porch, hall, MHG. obse eaves, Icel. ups, Goth. ubizwa porch; cf. Icel. upsar-dropi, OSw. ops[84]-drup water dropping from the eaves. Probably from the root of E. over. The s of eaves is in English regarded as a plural ending, though not so in Saxon. See {Over}, and cf. {Eavesdrop}.] 1. (Arch.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof. 2. Brow; ridge. [Obs.] [bd]Eaves of the hill.[b8] --Wyclif. 3. Eyelids or eyelashes. And closing eaves of wearied eyes. --Tennyson. {Eaves board} (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also {eaves catch} and {eaves lath}. {Eaves channel}, {Eaves gutter}, {Eaves trough}. Same as {Gutter}, 1. {Eaves molding} (Arch.), a molding immediately below the eaves, acting as a cornice or part of a cornice. {Eaves swallow} (Zo[94]l.). (a) The cliff swallow; -- so called from its habit of building retort-shaped nests of mud under the eaves of buildings. See {Cliff swallow}, under {Cliff}. (b) The European swallow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Eaves \Eaves\, n. pl. [OE. evese, pl. eveses, AS. efese eaves, brim, brink; akin to OHG. obisa, opasa, porch, hall, MHG. obse eaves, Icel. ups, Goth. ubizwa porch; cf. Icel. upsar-dropi, OSw. ops[84]-drup water dropping from the eaves. Probably from the root of E. over. The s of eaves is in English regarded as a plural ending, though not so in Saxon. See {Over}, and cf. {Eavesdrop}.] 1. (Arch.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof. 2. Brow; ridge. [Obs.] [bd]Eaves of the hill.[b8] --Wyclif. 3. Eyelids or eyelashes. And closing eaves of wearied eyes. --Tennyson. {Eaves board} (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also {eaves catch} and {eaves lath}. {Eaves channel}, {Eaves gutter}, {Eaves trough}. Same as {Gutter}, 1. {Eaves molding} (Arch.), a molding immediately below the eaves, acting as a cornice or part of a cornice. {Eaves swallow} (Zo[94]l.). (a) The cliff swallow; -- so called from its habit of building retort-shaped nests of mud under the eaves of buildings. See {Cliff swallow}, under {Cliff}. (b) The European swallow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cliff \Cliff\ (kl[icr]f), n. [AS. clif, cloef; akin to OS. klif, D. klif, klip, Icel. klif, Dan. & G. klippe, Sw. klippa; perh. orig. a climbing place. See {Climb}.] A high, steep rock; a precipice. {Cliff swallow} (Zo[94]l.), a North American swallow ({Petrochelidon lunifrons}), which builds its nest against cliffs; the {eaves swallow}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Eaves \Eaves\, n. pl. [OE. evese, pl. eveses, AS. efese eaves, brim, brink; akin to OHG. obisa, opasa, porch, hall, MHG. obse eaves, Icel. ups, Goth. ubizwa porch; cf. Icel. upsar-dropi, OSw. ops[84]-drup water dropping from the eaves. Probably from the root of E. over. The s of eaves is in English regarded as a plural ending, though not so in Saxon. See {Over}, and cf. {Eavesdrop}.] 1. (Arch.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof. 2. Brow; ridge. [Obs.] [bd]Eaves of the hill.[b8] --Wyclif. 3. Eyelids or eyelashes. And closing eaves of wearied eyes. --Tennyson. {Eaves board} (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also {eaves catch} and {eaves lath}. {Eaves channel}, {Eaves gutter}, {Eaves trough}. Same as {Gutter}, 1. {Eaves molding} (Arch.), a molding immediately below the eaves, acting as a cornice or part of a cornice. {Eaves swallow} (Zo[94]l.). (a) The cliff swallow; -- so called from its habit of building retort-shaped nests of mud under the eaves of buildings. See {Cliff swallow}, under {Cliff}. (b) The European swallow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cliff \Cliff\ (kl[icr]f), n. [AS. clif, cloef; akin to OS. klif, D. klif, klip, Icel. klif, Dan. & G. klippe, Sw. klippa; perh. orig. a climbing place. See {Climb}.] A high, steep rock; a precipice. {Cliff swallow} (Zo[94]l.), a North American swallow ({Petrochelidon lunifrons}), which builds its nest against cliffs; the {eaves swallow}. | |
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Effigial \Ef*fig"i*al\, a. Relating to an effigy. | |
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Epaxial \Ep*ax"i*al\, a. [Pref. ep- + axial.] (Anat.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Epical \Ep"ic*al\, a. Epic. -- {Ep"ic*al*ly}, adv. Poems which have an epical character. --Brande & C. His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical). --Lowell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Epical \Ep"ic*al\, a. Epic. -- {Ep"ic*al*ly}, adv. Poems which have an epical character. --Brande & C. His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical). --Lowell. | |
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Epiclinal \Ep`i*cli"nal\, a. [Pref. epi- + Gr. [?] a couch.] (Bot.) Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower. | |
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Epicoele \Ep"i*coele\, n. [Pref. epi- + Gr. [?] a hollow.] (Anat.) A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates. | |
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Epicolic \Ep`i*col"ic\, a. [Pref. epi- + Gr. [?] colon.] (Anat.) Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon. | |
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Epigeal \Ep`i*ge"al\, a. (Bot.) Epig[91]ous. [R.] | |
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Epiglottic \Ep`i*glot"tic\, a. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis. | |
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Epiglottidean \Ep`i*glot*tid"e*an\, a. (Anat.) Same as {Epiglottic}. | |
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Epiglottis \Ep`i*glot"tis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?]; 'epi` upon + [?], [?], tongue. See {Glottis}.] (Anat.) A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx. | |
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Episkeletal \Ep`i*skel"e*tal\, a. [Pref. epi- + skeleletal.] (Anat.) Above or outside of the endoskeleton; epaxial. | |
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Episyllogism \Ep`i*syl"lo*gism\, n. [Pref. epi- + syllogism.] (Logic) A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism. | |
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Epochal \Ep"o*chal\, a. Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. [bd]Epochal points.[b8] --Shedd. | |
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Evigilation \E*vig`i*la"tion\, n. [L. evigilatio; e out + vigilare to be awake. See {Vigilant}.] A waking up or awakening. [Obs.] | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
epsilon [see {delta}] 1. n. A small quantity of anything. "The cost is epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible; less than {marginal}. "We can get this feature for epsilon cost." 3. `within epsilon of': close enough to be indistinguishable for all practical purposes, even closer than being `within delta of'. "That's not what I asked for, but it's within epsilon of what I wanted." Alternatively, it may mean not close enough, but very little is required to get it there: "My program is within epsilon of working." | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
epsilon squared n. A quantity even smaller than {epsilon}, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is {epsilon}, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare {lost in the underflow}, {lost in the noise}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
EPSILON including strings and lists, developed by A.P. Ershov at Novosibirsk in 1967. EPSILON was used to implement {ALGOL 68} on the {M-220}. ["Application of the Machine-Oriented Language Epsilon to Software Development", I.V. Pottosin et al, in Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974, pp. 417-434]. [{Jargon File}] (1995-05-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
epsilon 1. 2. Erdos}) A very small, insignificant, or negligible quantity of something. The use of epsilon is from the {epsilon-delta method} of {proof} in {differential calculus}. (2001-07-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
EPSILON including strings and lists, developed by A.P. Ershov at Novosibirsk in 1967. EPSILON was used to implement {ALGOL 68} on the {M-220}. ["Application of the Machine-Oriented Language Epsilon to Software Development", I.V. Pottosin et al, in Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974, pp. 417-434]. [{Jargon File}] (1995-05-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
epsilon 1. 2. Erdos}) A very small, insignificant, or negligible quantity of something. The use of epsilon is from the {epsilon-delta method} of {proof} in {differential calculus}. (2001-07-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
epsilon squared comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is {epsilon}, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare {lost in the underflow}, {lost in the noise}. (1997-09-05) |