单词 | divellent |
释义 | divellentadj. Drawing asunder; decomposing, separative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > tending to separate or cause separation > causing separation divellent1783 divelling1801 dissociable1835 1783 R. Kirwan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 40 In all decompositions we must consider, first, the powers which resist any decomposition..and, secondly, the powers which tend to effect a decomposition and a new union. The first I shall call quiescent affinities, and the second sort divellent. 1805 Chenevix in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 108 The application of two divellent forces. 1850 C. G. B. Daubeny Introd. Atomic Theory (ed. 2) x. 351 Unstable equilibrium..with the divellent and quiescent attractions so nearly balanced, that nothing but the inertia of the atoms tends to maintain the existing combination. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.1783 |
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