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1. ab-, comb. form View full entry 1904
...Prefixed to the names of units (esp. of electrical and magnetic quantities) in the practical system to form the names of the corresponding units in the centimetre-gram-second electromagnetic system, as abampere...
2. A band, n. View full entry 1939
...In fibrils of striated muscle: each of the transverse bands which alternate with I bands, appearing dark under polarized light and composed of interdigitating filaments of actin and myosin....
3. Abbott's booby, n. View full entry 1910
...A large black and white gannet, Papasula abbotti, formerly widespread in the Indian Ocean but now found only in the vicinity of Christmas Island....
4. Abdulla, n. View full entry 1903
...A brand of Turkish cigarette; a cigarette of this type. Freq. attrib....
5. abfrontal, adj. View full entry 1903
...Designating the surface of an organ or structure which faces away from the front, or is on the opposite side from the surface designated as frontal; of or relating to such a...
6. abhuman, adj. and n. View full entry 1910
...Having some human characteristics, but others which are supernatural, alien, or monstrous; partially human....
7. abience, n. View full entry 1931
...Withdrawal from a stimulus (cf. abient); avoidance behaviour; the tendency to display this. Opposed to adience...
8. abient, adj. View full entry 1931
...Designating a response of withdrawal from or avoidance of a stimulus; characterized by or exhibiting such a response; avoidant. Opposed to adient...
9. abiologic, adj. View full entry 1900
...= abiological...
10. abiotrophy, n. View full entry 1902
...Premature degeneration of cells or tissue (now usually within the central nervous system), esp. when hereditary or otherwise independent of external factors; an instance of this; any condition characterized by this....
11. Abitur, n. View full entry 1918
...In Germany: the set of examinations taken in the final year of secondary school, forming part of the entrance requirements for universities....
12. ablow, adj.2 View full entry 1905
...Of the wind: blowing. In predicative use only....
13. abmigrate, v. View full entry 1929
...intr. Of a bird: to migrate from the region where it was born and where it wintered to the distant summer breeding area of others of its species....
14. abmigration, n. View full entry 1923
...The migration of a bird which was born and has wintered in one region to the distant summer breeding area of others of its species....
15. Abo, n. and adj. View full entry 1908
...A member of an Australian aboriginal people; an Australian Aboriginal. ...
16. abob, adj. View full entry 1908
...Bobbing; afloat....
17. A-bomb, n. View full entry 1945
...= atom bomb...
18. Abominable Snowman, n. View full entry 1921
...= yeti...
19. aborning, adj. View full entry 1943
...That is in the process of being born or created....
20. abortee, n. View full entry 1912
...A woman who undergoes an induced abortion....
