单词 | inflammability |
释义 | inflammabilityn. a. The quality of being inflammable; †an inflammable. Cf. flammability n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > going on fire > liability to brimstoniness1398 flammability1646 inflammability1646 sulphurity1650 catchingness1655 inflammableness1680 ignitability1809 accendibility1821 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > going on fire > an inflammable substance inflammability1646 inflammable1770 burner1838 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 161 If the ambient air be impregnate with subtile inflamabilities, and such as are of quick accension. View more context for this quotation 1674 R. Boyle About Excellency & Grounds Mech. Hypothesis 25 in Excellency Theol. Sulphur..owes its inflammability to the convention of yet more simple and primary corpuscles. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics iii. 26 The high absolute refractive power of oil of cassia..indicates the great inflammability of its ingredients. 1966 A. B. Wallace & A. W. Wilkinson Res. Burns 634 Standards of non-inflammability to which textile fabrics must conform. 1968 E. Miller Textiles vi. 133 The necessity for some form of treatment which would reduce inflammability risk in fabrics has been on record since the seventeenth century at least. b. figurative. Excitableness of temperament. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [noun] suscitability1612 fieriness1625 heat1689 inflammability1787 excitability1797 mobility1824 inflammableness1830 excitableness1875 gustiness1901 1787 T. Jefferson Let. 5 Feb. in Papers (1955) XI. 97 He has one foible, an excessive inflammability of temper. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. x. 516 This royal Young Gentleman, with his vanities, ambitions, inexperiences, plentiful inflammabilities. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks I. viii. 264 I had thus an opportunity of witnessing Greek inflammability during parliamentary discussion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1646 |
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