Helen Fenton

Amphibole: Definition and part of speech

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Amphibole

  1. n. A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Amphibolic: Definition and part of speech

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Amphibolic

  1. a. Of or resembling the mineral amphibole.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Amortization: Definition and part of speech

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Amortization

  1. n. The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid.
  2. n. The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Amortize: Definition and part of speech

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Amortize

  1. v. t. To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.
  2. v. t. To make as if dead; to destroy.
  3. v. t. To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.