English Dictionary: vascular | by the DICT Development Group |
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Vascular \Vas"cu*lar\, a. [L. vasculum a small vessel, dim. of vas vessel: cf. F. vasculaire. See {Vase}, and cf. Vessel.] 1. (Biol.) (a) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap. (b) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc. (c) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the ph[91]nogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only. {Vascular plants} (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class {Pteridophyta}. Cf. {Cellular plants}, {Cellular}. {Vascular system} (Bot.), the body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants. {Vascular tissue} (Bot.), vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes. {Water vascular system} (Zo[94]l.), a system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish. | |
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Vascular \Vas"cu*lar\, a. [L. vasculum a small vessel, dim. of vas vessel: cf. F. vasculaire. See {Vase}, and cf. Vessel.] 1. (Biol.) (a) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap. (b) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc. (c) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the ph[91]nogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only. {Vascular plants} (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class {Pteridophyta}. Cf. {Cellular plants}, {Cellular}. {Vascular system} (Bot.), the body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants. {Vascular tissue} (Bot.), vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes. {Water vascular system} (Zo[94]l.), a system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish. | |
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Vascular \Vas"cu*lar\, a. [L. vasculum a small vessel, dim. of vas vessel: cf. F. vasculaire. See {Vase}, and cf. Vessel.] 1. (Biol.) (a) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap. (b) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc. (c) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the ph[91]nogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only. {Vascular plants} (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class {Pteridophyta}. Cf. {Cellular plants}, {Cellular}. {Vascular system} (Bot.), the body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants. {Vascular tissue} (Bot.), vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes. {Water vascular system} (Zo[94]l.), a system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish. | |
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Vascular \Vas"cu*lar\, a. [L. vasculum a small vessel, dim. of vas vessel: cf. F. vasculaire. See {Vase}, and cf. Vessel.] 1. (Biol.) (a) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap. (b) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc. (c) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the ph[91]nogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only. {Vascular plants} (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class {Pteridophyta}. Cf. {Cellular plants}, {Cellular}. {Vascular system} (Bot.), the body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants. {Vascular tissue} (Bot.), vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes. {Water vascular system} (Zo[94]l.), a system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish. | |
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Vascularity \Vas`cu*lar"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Vascularities}. (Biol.) The quality or state of being vascular. | |
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Vascularity \Vas`cu*lar"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Vascularities}. (Biol.) The quality or state of being vascular. | |
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Vassalry \Vas"sal*ry\, n. The body of vassals. [R.] | |
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Vehicular \Ve*hic"u*lar\, a. [L. vehicularis: cf. F. v[82]hiculaire.] Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance. | |
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Vehiculary \Ve*hic"u*la*ry\, a. Vehicular. | |
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Vexillar \Vex"il*lar\, Vexillary \Vex"il*la*ry\, [Cf. F. vexillaire, L. vexillarius a standard bearer.] 1. Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. {Vexilary [91]stivation} (Bot.), a mode of [91]stivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. | |
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Vexillar \Vex"il*lar\, Vexillary \Vex"il*la*ry\, [Cf. F. vexillaire, L. vexillarius a standard bearer.] 1. Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. {Vexilary [91]stivation} (Bot.), a mode of [91]stivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. | |
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Vexillary \Vex"il*la*ry\, n. [L. vexillarius: cf. F. vexillaire.] A standard bearer. --Tennyson. | |
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Vexillar \Vex"il*lar\, Vexillary \Vex"il*la*ry\, [Cf. F. vexillaire, L. vexillarius a standard bearer.] 1. Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard. 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. {Vexilary [91]stivation} (Bot.), a mode of [91]stivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. | |
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Visual \Vis"u*al\, a. [L. visualis, from visus a seeing, sight: cf. F. visuel. See {Vision}.] 1. Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve. The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray. --Milton. 2. That can be seen; visible. [R.] {Visual angle}. (Opt.) See under {Angle}. {Visual cone} (Persp.), a cone whose vertex is at the point of sight, or the eye. {Visual plane}, any plane passing through the point of sight. {Visual point}, the point at which the visual rays unite; the position of the eye. {Visual purple} (Physiol.), a photochemical substance, of a purplish red color, contained in the retina of human eyes and in the eyes of most animals. It is quickly bleached by light, passing through the colors, red, orange, and yellow, and then disappearing. Also called {rhodopsin}, and {vision purple}. See {Optography}. {Visual ray}, a line from the eye, or point of sight. {Visual white} (Physiol.), the final product in the action of light on visual purple. It is reconverted into visual purple by the regenerating action of the choroidal epithelium. {Visual yellow} (Physiol.), a product intermediate between visual purple and visual white, formed in the photochemical action of light on visual purple. | |
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Resonance \Res"o*nance\ (r?z"?-nans), n. [Cf. F. r[82]sonance, L. resonantia an echo.] 1. The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant. 2. (Acoustics) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. {Pulmonary resonance} (Med.), the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. {Vocal resonance} (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking. | |
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Vocule \Voc"ule\, n. [L. vocula, dim. of vox, vocis, voice.] (Phon.) A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b. --Rush. -- {Voc"u*lar}, a. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
VisualWorks {Smalltalk} programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original {Smalltalk-80} by {Xerox PARC} and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by {ParcPlace Systems}. VisualWorks relies on {dynamic translation} as its {virtual machine} technology. {VisualWorks Wiki (http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks)}. (2003-05-15) |