Twitter Google Share on Facebook Also found in:Thesaurus,Encyclopedia,Wikipedia. dy·na·tron (dī′nə-trŏn′) n. A tetrode with grid and plate potentials so arranged that plate current decreases when plate potential increases. [Greekdunamis,power; seedynamic+-tron.] ...
4.(Music, other)musicof, relating to, or indicating dynamics:dynamic marks. 5.(Computer Science)computing(of a memory) needing its contents refreshed periodically. Comparestatic8 [C19: from Frenchdynamique,from Greekdunamikospowerful, fromdunamispower, fromdunasthaito be able] ...
(21) In On the Soul, this active/passive distinction of potentialities is presented in more specific dress. THE DYNAMICS OF DUNAMIS Each time we collapse our spirit/wave function of potentiality into act, we die to all the potentialities that we do not enact. Quantum anthropology: reimaging ...
Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dunamis, "power") + -ite, possibly under the influence of dynamo or dynamic. Support Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dynamite. Examples If Dilara spoke Kurdish, she’d be seeing the word ...
Gregory articulates the difference between the Father and the Son by distinguishing the category of being (ousia) from that of power (dunamis). Augustine's de Trinitate 5 and the problem of the divine names "father" and "son" These so-called commons include being (ousia), sameness (tauton...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook dynode Encyclopedia Wikipedia dy·node (dī′nōd′) n. An electrode used in certain electron tubes to provide secondary emission. [Greekdunamis,power; seedynamic+-ode.] ...
[Swedishdynamit, from Greekdunamis,power; seedynamic.] dy′na·mit′ern. Word History:The Nobel Prizes were established by the Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) with funds from his immense personal fortune, amassed in part through the manufacture of explosives and armaments...
Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power. [Frenchdynamomètre: Greekdunamis,power; seedynamic+-mètre,-meter.] dy′na·mo·met′ric(-mō-mĕt′rĭk),dy′na·mo·met′ri·cal(-rĭ-kəl)adj. dy′na·mom′e·tryn. ...
[aero- + Greek dunamis, power (from dunasthai, to be able; see deu- in Indo-European roots).] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Al...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook Also found in:Thesaurus,Medical,Encyclopedia. dy·na·mom·e·ter (dī′nə-mŏm′ĭ-tər) n. Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power. [Frenchdynamomètre: Greekdunamis,power; seedynamic+-mètre,-meter.] ...