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Violet Family
- noun - a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus
- a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola; Hybanthus; Hymenanthera; Melicytus
Violet-Purple
- adjective - light violet and dark purple
Violet-Tinged
- adjective - of something that is tinged with violet
Violet-Tinted
- adjective - of something that is tinged with violet
Vitreous Body
- noun - the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball
Voicelessness
- noun - a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice
- having no voice in the management or control of affairs; "the voicelessness of those who live in situations of hopelessness"
- speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
Vortex Fringe
- - The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.
Vortex Theory
- - The theory, advanced by Thomson (Lord Kelvin) on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid. Various properties of such atoms (vortex atoms) can be mathematically deduced. This theory is now (1998) obsolete, and has been superseded by quantum mechanics, which provides more accurate and detailed explanations of atomic behavior.
Vulnerability
- noun - susceptibility to injury or attack
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule"
Vulpes Vulpes
- noun - the common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species