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Osmium :: Osmium (n.) A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard, infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance known. Its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain tissues. Symbol Os. Atomic weight 191.1. Specific gravity 22.477..

Symbol :: Symbol (n.) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty..

Symbolize :: Symbolize (v. i.) To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

Totem :: Totem (n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan..

Symbolic :: Symbolic (a.) See Symbolics.

Siva :: Siva (n.) One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature..

Tellurium :: Tellurium (n.) A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2..

Quaternion :: Quaternion (n.) The quotient of two vectors, or of two directed right lines in space, considered as depending on four geometrical elements, and as expressible by an algebraic symbol of quadrinomial form..

Bed :: Bed (n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.

Symbolized :: Symbolization (n.) The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

Thirteen :: Thirteen (n.) A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii..

One :: One (n.) A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i..

Symbol :: Symbol (n.) Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation..

Formula :: Formula (n.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound..

Allusive :: Allusive (a.) Figurative; symbolical.

Notation :: Notation (n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations..

Operand :: Operand (n.) The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical operation is performed; -- called also faciend..

Calcium :: Calcium (n.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca..

Inverse :: Inverse (a.) Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x..

Desk :: Desk (n.) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession..

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