Word Meanings - TUMULTUATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. Boyle.

Related words: (words related to TUMULTUATION)

• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• FLUID
  Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
• FLUIDAL
  Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• FLUIDRACHM
  See S
• COMMOTION
  1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. commotion in the winds! Shak. 2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. 3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
• FLUIDITY
  The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class
• FLUIDIZE
  To render fluid.
• TUMULTUATION
  Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. Boyle.
• FLUIDOUNCE
  See FLUID
• MOVEMENT
  A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement
• IRREGULARIST
  One who is irregular. Baxter.
• IRREGULARLY
  In an irregular manner.
• FLUIDNESS
  The state of being flluid; fluidity.
• IRREGULAR
  Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical;
• PASTEUR'S FLUID
  An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast,
• SEMIFLUID
  Imperfectly fluid. -- n.
• MARGARYIZE; MARGARY'S FLUID
  To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate .
• COUNTERMOVE; COUNTERMOVEMENT
  A movement in opposition to another.