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Vizierships
- noun - the position of vizier
Volborthite
- - A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime.
Volcanicity
- - Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.
Voluntaries
- noun - (military) a person who freely enlists for service
- composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance
Voluntarily
- adverb - out of your own free will; "he voluntarily submitted to the fingerprinting"
Voluntarism
- - Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer teaching that the evolution of the universe is the activity of a blind and irrational will, Fichte holding that the intelligent activity of the ego is the fundamental fact of reality.
Vortex Line
- - A line, within a rotating fluid, whose tangent at every point is the instantaneous axis of rotation as that point of the fluid.
Vortex Ring
- - A ring-shaped mass of moving fluid which, by virtue of its motion of rotation around an axis disposed in circular form, attains a more or less distinct separation from the surrounding medium and has many of the properties of a solid.
Vouchsafing
- verb - grant in a condescending manner
Vowel Point
- noun - a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel