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Antidromic
- adjective - conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
Antifreeze
- noun - a liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing point
Antiproton
- noun - an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton
Antitrades
- noun - wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds
- winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics
Antitragus
- - A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.
Aphaereses
- noun - (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
Aphaeresis
- noun - (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
Aphaeretic
- adjective - relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis
Apocarpous
- adjective - (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses
Apostrophe
- noun - address to an absent or imaginary person
- the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word