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Word Meanings - INTEROCEANIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.

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  • CONNECTOR
    One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
  • CANAL
    A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.
  • CONNECTIVELY
    In connjunction; jointly.
  • CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
    Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
  • CONNECTEDLY
    In a connected manner.
  • CANALIZATION
    Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
  • COMMUNICATION
    A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of
  • CONNECTIVE
    Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
  • CANALICULUS
    A minute canal.
  • BETWEEN
    betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
  • CONNECT
    Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
  • CANAL COAL
    See COAL
  • INTEROCEANIC
    Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.
  • CONNECTION
    1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
  • INTERCOMMUNICATION
    Mutual communication. Owen.
  • DECANAL
    Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side
  • DISCONNECT
    To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
  • DISCONNECTION
    The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
  • DELTA CONNECTION
    One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
  • GO-BETWEEN
    An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
  • SUBDECANAL
    Of or pertaining to a subdean or subdeanery.
  • INCONNECTION
    Disconnection.
  • T CONNECTION
    The connection of two coils diagrammatically as a letter T, chiefly used as a connection for passing transformers. When the three free ends are connected to a source of three-phase current, two-phase current may be derived from the secondary

 

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