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- Production - n. - The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.
- Production - n. - That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.
- Production - n. - The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
- Sanguification - n. - The production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.
- Supernaturalism - n. - The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case.
- Anthracene - n. - A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.
- Prodigy - n. - A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.
- Parthenogenesis - n. - The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle.
- Arpeggio - n. - The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.
- Adjuvant - n. - A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
- Glycogenesis - n. - The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.
- Humorism - n. - The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.
- Pyrogallol - n. - A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.
- Embryogeny - n. - The production and development of an embryo.
- Parthenogenesis - n. - The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.
- Stenograph - n. - A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.
- Proliferation - n. - The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.
- Machine - n. - In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
- Hymenogeny - n. - The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.
- Criticism - n. - The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.
- Efficacy - n. - Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.
- Photography - n. - The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.
- Test - n. - A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
- Shingling - n. - The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
- Apple - n. - Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.
- Polyembryony - n. - The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.
- Crystallogeny - n. - The science which pertains to the production of crystals.
- Inoperation - n. - Agency; influence; production of effects.
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- G5449 φύσις - 5449 φύσις - ΦΎΣΙΣ - - phýsis - foo'-sis - from φύω; growth (by germination or expansion), i.e. (by implication) natural production (lineal descent); by extension, a genus or sort; figuratively, native disposition, constitution or usage:--(man-)kind, nature(-al). - Noun Feminine - greek