Word Meanings - KALKI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar. Whitworth.

TENTHLY
In a tenth manner.
TENTHMETER; TENTHMETRE
A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.
VISHNU
A divinity of the modern Hindoo trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.
WHITWORTH BALL
A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.
AVATAR
The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu. 2. Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.
WHITWORTH GUN
A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England. Note: In Mr. Whitworth's system, the bore of the gun has a polygonal section, and the twist is rapid. The ball, which is pointed in front, is made to
TENTH
1. Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others. 2. Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
TENTHREDINIDES
A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.