Word Meanings - SCANDIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to scandium; derived from, or containing, scandium.

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• DERIVE
  To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon. Syn. -- To trace; deduce; infer. (more info) 1. To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DERIVEMENT
  That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• DERIVER
  One who derives.
• SCANDIUM
  A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicated under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals . It has not yet
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• DERIVATE
  Derived; derivative. H. Taylor. -- n.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• DERIVAL
  Derivation. The derival of e from a. Earle.
• DERIVABLE
  That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. All honor derivable upon me. South.
• DERIVABLY
  By derivation.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• SUBDERIVATIVE
  A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, "friendliness" is a subderivative, being derived from "friendly", which is in turn a derivative from "friend."
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach