Definition of finding

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Finding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fin.

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Division :: Division (n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed..
Bookmark :: Bookmark (n.) Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate..
Finding :: Finding (n.) That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc..
Porism :: Porism (n.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.
Salable :: Salable (a.) Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market.
Miss :: Miss (v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said..
Leveling :: Leveling (n.) The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad..
Mainprise :: Mainprise (v. t.) To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner..
Trover :: Trover (n.) An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion..
Inquisition :: Inquisition (n.) The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
Finding :: Finding (n.) Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.
Repertitious :: Repertitious (a.) Found; gained by finding.
Discovery :: Discovery (n.) Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood..
Carping :: Carping (a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.
Mensuration :: Mensuration (n.) That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles..
Babbler :: Babbler (n.) A hound too noisy on finding a good scent.
Ascertainment :: Ascertainment (n.) The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.
Censure :: Censure (n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas..
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