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A
- noun -
- adenine -(biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA
- ampere(s) )- the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps"
- angstrom - a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
- the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen
B
- noun -
- B - originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins
- B - the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen
- Bacillus - aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
- Barn - (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
- Bel - a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
- Boron - a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder
C
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- C - a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
- C - (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
- C - a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
- C - the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second
- C (100) roman numeral - being ten more than ninety
- Capacitance - a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
- Carbon - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
- Centigrade - a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
- Cytosine - base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
- stree
D
- adjective -
- a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets
- roman numeral - the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five
E
- noun -
- E (mathematical symbol) - the base of the natural system of logarithms; approximately equal to 2.718282...
- East - the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
- Tocopherol (vitamin E) - a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body
F
- noun -
- Fahrenheit - a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature
- Farad - the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates
- Fluorine - a nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite
G
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- G (universal gravitation constant) - physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
- G-force - a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated
- Gigabyte - a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
- Gigabyte - a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
- Gram - a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
- Guanine - a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine
H
- noun -
- Enthalpy - (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; "enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work"
- Henry - a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
- Hydrogen - a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe
- Planck's Constant -,the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second
I
- adjective -
- Iodine - a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks)
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number;
- used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane' is Scottish"
J
- noun - a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second
- the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet