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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.
- Proliferation - n. - The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.
- Biogeny - n. - A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
- 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.
- Stigmatization - n. - The production of stigmata upon the body. See Stigma, 8.
- 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.
- Crookes tube - - A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
- Crystallogeny - n. - The science which pertains to the production of crystals.
- Electro-capillarity - n. - The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
- Organic - a. - Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.
- Tetanization - n. - The production or condition of tetanus.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hypnogenic - a. - Relating to the production of hypnotic sleep; as, the so-called hypnogenic pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep.
- Radiophone - n. - An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the photophone.
- Gamogenesis - n. - The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.
- Embryogeny - n. - The production and development of an embryo.
- Resonance - n. - 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.
- Art - n. - The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.
- Crocein - n. - A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.
- Thermogenic - a. - Relating to heat, or to the production of heat; producing heat; thermogenous; as, the thermogenic tissues.
- 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.
- Exuberance - n. - The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage.
- Ozonizer - n. - An apparatus or agent for the production or application of ozone.
- Woolgrower - n. - One who raises sheep for the production of wool.
- Ecchymose - v. t. - To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.
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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