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  • impressionism — Fine Arts. (usually initial capital letter) a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of light on objects. a manner of painting in which the forms, colors, or tones of an object are lightly and rapidly indicated. a manner of sculpture in which volumes are partially modeled and surfaces roughened to reflect light unevenly.
  • impressionist — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
  • imprisonments — Plural form of imprisonment.
  • improbability — the quality or condition of being improbable; unlikelihood.
  • improgressive — (archaic) Not progressive.
  • improprieties — Plural form of impropriety.
  • improvability — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
  • improvidently — In an improvident manner.
  • improvisation — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
  • improvisatore — An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.
  • improvisatori — Plural form of improvisatore.
  • improvisatory — of, relating to, or characteristic of an improvisation or improvisator.
  • inter-company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
  • interproximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
  • intertemporal — Describing any relationship between past, present and future events or conditions.
  • isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
  • isodimorphism — isomorphism between the forms of two dimorphous substances.
  • kinematograph — cinematograph.
  • komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
  • lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
  • lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
  • lymphotrophic — carrying nutrients from the lymph to the tissues.
  • macrocephalic — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
  • macroparasite — (biology) Any parasite that is visible to the naked eye.
  • macropinacoid — a crystalline pinacoid which runs parallel to the longer horizontal axis
  • macroscopical — Macroscopic.
  • madeira topaz — citrine (def 2).
  • mail exploder — (messaging)   Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
  • major premise — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
  • malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
  • malapropistic — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
  • mariposa lily — any lily of the genus Calochortus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having tuliplike flowers of various colors.
  • master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
  • mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
  • matripotestal — of or relating to the authority exercised by a mother or a mother's blood relatives.
  • megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • memorial park — cemetery.
  • mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
  • mesi protocol — (processor)   Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid. A cache coherency protocol where each cache line is marked with one of the four states. The MESI protocol is used by the Pentium processor.
  • mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
  • metamorphosis — Biology. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly. Compare complete metamorphosis.
  • metamorphotic — Of or relating to metamorphosis.
  • metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
  • metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
  • microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.
  • microcephalia — Microcephaly.
  • microcephalic — having a head with a small braincase.
  • microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
  • microchip art — (hardware)   (chip art, chip graffiti) Images etched on integrated circuits purely for decoration, visible only under a microscope.
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