Word Finder - applications

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The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense

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The application of this cream should reduce the swelling.

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The substance applied.

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The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.

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The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.

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I make the remark, and leave you to make the application.

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A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)

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This iPhone application can connect to most social networks.

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A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

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December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications.

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(bureaucracy) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.

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Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.

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The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.

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Diligence; close thought or attention.

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A kind of needlework; appliqué.

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Compliance.

Such applications at the momelit when spores are germinating on the leaves, e.g.

Other applications depend on the strength of its resistance to acids.

The applications of anthropogeography to human uses give rise to political and commercial geography, in the elucidation of which all the earlier departments or stages have to be considered, together with historical and other purely human conditions.

It is an energetic oxidizing agent, and on this property its most important applications depend.

The science of geodesy is part of mathematical geography, of which the arts of surveying and cartography are applications.

I do not intend to allow such applications to 18 disrupt the smooth running of the Inquiry.

The theological interest which attaches to the idea of the preAaronic king-priest in these typical applications is practically independent of the historical questions suggested by the narrative of Gen.

The result of this harsh law was that numerous applications were made to Rome for secret absolution; and thus much money escaped the Inquisition in Spain.

During the first ten years after the act came into force 545 applications for orders were received, 313 orders were made, and 282 orders were confirmed.

They pointed out that while during the first five years the act was in force there were 315 applications for orders, during the second five years there were only 142 applications, and that proposals for new lines had become less numerous owing to the various difficulties in carrying them to a successful completion and to the difficulty of raising the necessary capital even when part of it was provided with the aid of the state and of the local authorities.

A large number of applications for mining concessions have been received since the establishment of the autonomous government.

The title of his work, Principles of Political Economy, with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy, though open to criticism, indicated a less narrow and formal conception of the field of the science than had been common amongst his predecessors.

The selection of the topics of mathematical inquiry among the infinite variety open to it has been guided by the useful applications, and indeed the abstract theory has only recently been disentangled from the empirical elements connected with these applications.

Thus the current applications of mathematics to the analysis of phenomena can be justified by no a priori necessity.

The micas are bad conductors of heat and electricity, and it is on these properties that many of their technical applications depend.

Thomson (Applications of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry, 47) that on dynamical principles there must be a reciprocal relation between the changes of dimensions produced by magnetization and the changes of magnetization attending mechanical strain.

In the applications of the calculus the co-ordinates of a quaternion are usually assumed to be numerical; when they are complex, the quaternion is further distinguished by Hamilton as a biquaternion.

It should be observed that while the use of special units, or extraordinaries, in a linear algebra is convenient, especially in applications, it is not indispensable.

In most cases these subsidiary algebras, as they may be called, are inseparable from the applications in which they are used; but in any attempt at a natural classification of algebra (at present a hopeless task), they would have to be taken into account.

So far the development of algebra and geometry had been mutually independent, except for a few isolated applications of geometrical constructions to the solution of algebraical problems. Certain minds had long suspected the advantages which would accrue from the unrestricted application of algebra to geometry, but it was not until the advent of the philosopher Rene Descartes that the co-ordination was effected.

In the applications with which we are concerned, t, n are very small quantities; and we may take P = x yn - At the same time dS may be identified with dxdy, and in the de nominator p may be treated as constant and equal to f.

The New English Dictionary points out that whereas the old Teutonic type of the word is neuter, corresponding to the Latin numen, in the Christian applications it becomes masculine, and that even where the earlier neuter form is still kept, as in Gothic and Old Norwegian, the construction is masculine.

Practical Applications Medicine and surgery have never been slow to appropriate and apply the biological facts of pathology, and at no period have they followed more closely in its wake than during the last quarter of the 19th century.

For applications of the hodograph to the solution of kinematical problems see Mechanics.

These and other tributary streams have been covered in and built over (in some cases serving as sewers), but it is possible to trace their valleys at various points by the fall and rise of streets crossing them, and their names survive, as will be seen, in various modern applications.

Cornish pumps are the oldest of the machines for draining mines; in fact, one of the earliest applications of the old Woolf and Newcomen engines in the 18th century was to pumps for deep mines.

Mercury, by doing so, becomes viscid and unfit for its ordinary applications.

Similarly soils with less than i% of nitrogen are likely to be benefited by applications of nitrogenous manures.

The chief applications of Chile saltpetre are in the nitric acid industry, and in the manufacture of ordinary saltpetre for making gunpowder, ordinary Chile saltpetre being unsuitable by reason of its deliquescent nature, a property, however, not exhibited by the perfectly pure salt.

Its chief applications are as a manure and in the nitric acid industry.

Among other ingenious applications, he used it to determine the form of movement of a vibrating string, by him first successfully reduced to mechanical principles.

Since 1875 increased attention has been devoted to the applications of the rarer metals.

Alcohol is extensively employed as a solvent; in fact, this constitutes one of its most important industrial applications.

During the next three decades (1861-1891) the law was extended, and methylated spirit was duty-free for all purposes except for use as beverages and internal medicinal applications.

As it would be impossible within the limits of this article to illustrate or explain adequately the applications which have been made of the principles of thermodynamics, it has been necessary to select such illustrations only as are required for other reasons, or could not be found elsewhere.

He studied chemistry under Priestley and gave attention to the practical applications of the science.

He contributed two memoirs to the Philosophical Transactions, one, "Logometria," which discusses the calculation of logarithms and certain applications of the infinitesimal calculus, the other, a "Description of the great fiery meteor seen on March 6th, 1716."

The most numerous applications are in America.

The chief industrial applications are for making denatured alcohol (q.v.), and as a solvent, e.g.

But these applications are being superseded by the electric furnace, and electric light.

In physical and mechanical applications, where concrete measurements are involved, there is, as pointed out in the preceding section, the additional inaccuracy due to want of exactness in the figure itself.

Official figures show that the total number of applications for pensions up to that date had been 31,271, of which 23,877 had been granted.

The money is lent by an official board, which deals with applications and manages the finance of the system.

He published in1828-1830his Cours complet d'economie politique pratique, which is in the main an expansion of the Traite, with practical applications.

At all the more important schools the number of applications is many times greater than the vacancies.

The equations (66) - (71) are Siacci's, slightly modified by General Mayevski; and now in the numerical applications to high angle fire we can still employ the ballistic table for direct fire.

In the Church of England the word is applied to a private place of worship, attached either to the palaces of the sovereign, "chapels royal," or to the residence of a private person, to a college, school, prison, workhouse, &c. Further, the word has particular legal applications, though in each case the building might be and often is styled a church.

The investigation of all new applications for relief was committed to the deacon of the district, and every effort was made to enable the poor to help themselves.

The table occupies 300 pages, and there is an introduction of 88 pages relating to the mode of calculation, and the applications of logarithms.

On the whole, as in the case of vertebrate palaeontology, the pre-Darwinian period of invertebrate palaeontology was one of rather dry systematic description, in which, however, the applications of the science gradually extended to many regions of the world and to all divisions of the kingdom of invertebrates.