Exceptions dictionaries

When the name ends in -insdure the translator may substitute -ic acid for this unless another acid already bears the resulting name thus Akridinsdure is often called acridic acid instead of the longer acridinic acid, but Mekonin-sdure should be translated meconinic acid because Mekonsdure has preempted the translation meconic acid. Such exceptions are given in the dictionary as far as possible, but in doubtful cases the longer form -inic acid would be the safer. 

There is a dual classification for some terms (e.g., 573.1 Hepatitis in viral diseases classified elsewhere ), but this is not extensive. The dictionaries are very comprehensive with the exception of symptoms, which tend to be scattered. They have been widely used in coding patient histories and hospital charts. 

Webster s New World Dictionary defines terminology as the the terms used in a specific science, art, etc. Understanding the terms used in any branch of science or humanities is basic to developing a sense of familiarity with the subject matter. The science of power quality is no exception. More commonly used power quality terms are defined and explained below ... 

Crystals are isomorphous if they have the same space group and unit-cell dimensions, and the types and the positions of atoms in each crystal are the same except for a replacement of one or more atoms in one structure with different types of atoms in the other. Isostructural crystals have the same structure, but not necessarily the same cell dimensions nor the same chemical composition, and have a comparable variability in the coordinates of the atoms to that of the cell dimensions and chemical composition. For more information on crystallographic terms see the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) online dictionary http //reference.iucr.org/dictionary. 

The genetic code dictionary was originally established from studies on the bacterium E. coli. It is now known to be the same for all organisms i.e., it is universal. The only exceptions occur for a few codons in mitochondria from a number of species. 

The following subset dictionaries have been published in recent years from the Chapman Hall/ CRC database, and are intended as desktop references for the specialist worker. Now published by CRC Press each (except the older titles) consists of a large, single-volume printed dictionary accompanied by a fully searchable CD-ROM uniform in format and search capabilities (including substructure searching) with the main database. A new interface for text and structure searching by ChemAxon was released in 2009. 

When proverbs come in pairs, they tend to form contraries rather than contradictories. Although the dictionary lists "clothes make the man" as well as "clothes don t make the man," and "history repeats itself as well as "history never repeats itself," these are exceptions.29 More typical are pairs such as "like attracts like" and "opposites attract." Two mutually exclusive mechanisms are rarely exhaustive. If people mate at random, "like attracts like" and "opposites attract" are both false. Also, as I said, some persons may be subject neither to adaptive nor to countered a ptive preferences or be neither conformist nor anticonformist. 

Now we turn to some more problematic cases. In English, the consonants /dh/, /zh/, /ng/ and /h/ are a little more difficult to deal with. There are clearly exactly four unvoiced fricatives /th/, /f/, /s/ and /sh/ in English and of these, /f/ and /s/ have the voiced equivalents /v/ and /z/, and these are unproblematic. The voiced equivalent of /th/ is /dh/ and while /th/ is a common enough phoneme, /dh/ only occurs in very particular patterns. For a start, the number of minimal pairs that occur between /dh/ and /th/ are few real examples include teeth noun, /1 iy th/ and teeth.verb, /t iy dh/, while most are near minimal pairs such as bath /b ae th/ and bathe / b ey dh/ where the quality of the vowel differs. Even if we except /dh/ as a phoneme on this basis, it occurs in strange lexicon patterns. In an analysis of one dictionary, it occurred in only about 100 words out of a total of 25,000. But if we take token count into consideration, we find in fact that it is one of the most common phonemes of all in that it occurs in some of the most common function words... 

Acetates n. (1) Metallic salts derived from acetic acid by interaction of the metallic oxide, hydroxide, carbonate with the acid, or by the esters derived by interaction of alcohols with acetic acid. Typical metallic salts are lead, cobalt, and manganese acetates. Common esters are ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, and amyl acetates. Acetate salts have the formula CH3COOMe, where Me is a monovalent metal. Divalent metals hke lead, etc., obviously combine with two acid radicals. The formula given above for the acetate salts apply also to esters, except that the Me becomes an alkyl radical. (2) It is also used colloquially for cellulose acetate plastics. Goldberg DE (2003) Fundamentals of chemistry. McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, New York. Vincenti R (ed) (1994) Elsevier s textile dictionary, 2003. Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Amsterdam. 

Journal abbreviations generally follow the practice of the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI), except for a short list of very well known journals where the Dictionary gives shorter abbreviations to save space (e.g. J.A.C.S. instead of J. Am. Chem. Soc.)... 

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