ampacity
The root mean square of the electrical current which a device (usually a wire) can carry within a specific environment (including temperature rating, power loss, heat dissipation, etc.) It is measured in amperes (amps) and is most often used to rate electrical wires and cables.

ampage
Alternative form of amperage.

ampages
plural of ampage

amperage
The electric current; charge transmitted per unit time, measured in amperes.

amperages
plural of amperage

ampere
A unit of electrical current, the standard base unit in the International System of Units; colloquially amp. Abbreviation: amp, Symbol: A

amperes
plural of ampere

amphiblastula
A larva of some sponges that has equal numbers of both flagellate and nonflagellate cells separated from each other on opposite sides of the blastula.

amphiblastulas
plural of amphiblastula

amphizoonoses
plural of amphizoonosis

amphizoonosis
An infection in both directions among host species, including other than human, due to the growing number of nonhuman adenovirus genomes.

amplitude
The measure of the size of something, especially its width or breadth; largeness, magnitude.
The maximum absolute value of the vertical component of a curve or function, especially one that is periodic.
The maximum absolute value of some quantity that varies.
The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.
The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.
The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.
The range of motion of the gymnast's body while performing a skill.
The range of environmental conditions in which an organism can survive.

amplitudes
plural of amplitude

amt
Abbreviation of amount.

amts
plural of amt

anarboricity
The maximum number of edge-disjoint cyclic subgraphs of a graph G whose union is G.

anazoturia
A decrease in the amount of nitrogenous material (such as urea) in the urine.

anentropies
plural of anentropy

anentropy
A measure of the purity or chemical affinity in a thermodynamic system.
A measure of the simplicity or purity of a distribution.
An increase in order.

aneuploids
plural of aneuploid

aneuspory
A form of meiosis in which an unusual number of spores (or megaspores) are formed

angoricities
plural of angoricity

angoricity
A measure of the stress in a system of granular materials near to jamming.

angstrom
A unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁰ meters (that is, one ten-billionth of a meter), approximately the size of an atom, and denoted by the symbol Å, used especially to measure the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation or distances between atoms.

angstroms
plural of angstrom

anilox
A method used to provide a measured amount of ink to a flexo printing plate, involving a hard cylinder whose surface is covered in tiny cells that capture the ink.

anker
A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity.

ankers
plural of anker

ankleful
A quantity that covers or fills an ankle.

anklefuls
plural of ankleful

anklesful
plural of ankleful

anniversaries
plural of anniversary

anniversary
A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.
A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.
A day subsequent in time to a given event by some significant period other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).

anniverse
Obsolete form of anniversary.

anniverses
plural of anniverse

annuities
plural of annuity

annuity
A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.

annulenylidene
Any carbene derived from an odd-numbered annulene by conversion of the CH₂ group to C

annulenylidenes
plural of annulenylidene

annumeration
Further addition to a previous number or quantity.

anomalies
plural of anomaly

anomaly
A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
Any of various angular distances.
A defect or malformation.
A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
An irregularity or disproportion.

anomoly
Misspelling of anomaly.

anslaight
Archaic form of onslaught.

anslaights
plural of anslaight

antedependence
The dependence of a measure on some previous observations

antedependences
plural of antedependence

anticountermeasure
A countercountermeasure.

anticountermeasures
plural of anticountermeasure

antiforensics
countermeasures against forensic analysis

antighost
A field with a negative ghost number.

antighosts
plural of antighost

antihelium
The antiatom form of helium

antilaplacian
The number of which a given number is the Laplacian

antilaplacians
plural of antilaplacian

antilog
An antilogarithm.

antilogarithm
The number of which a given number is the logarithm (to a given base).

antilogarithms
plural of antilogarithm

antilogs
plural of antilog

antimonsoon
The upper, contrary-moving current of the atmosphere over a monsoon.

antimonsoons
plural of antimonsoon

antinatriuresis
A decrease in the amount of sodium in the urine

antiparticle
A subatomic particle corresponding to another particle with the same mass, spin and mean lifetime but with charge, parity, strangeness and other quantum numbers flipped in sign; a particle that has a reversed world line to another.

antiparticles
plural of antiparticle

antiportal
A defined plane or volume that can never be seen through, and which thus reduces the number of calculations involved in rendering a three-dimensional scene.

antiportals
plural of antiportal

antiprime
Synonym of highly composite number.

antiprimes
plural of antiprime

antisemite
Alternative form of anti-Semite.

antisemites
plural of antisemite

apeirogon
A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices;
A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices;
(in the regular case) the limit case of an n-sided regular polygon as n increases to infinity and the edge length is fixed; typically imagined as a straight line partitioned into equal segments by an infinite number of equally-spaced points.

apeirogons
plural of apeirogon

apeirohedra
plural of apeirohedron

apeirohedron
A polyhedron with an infinite number of faces.

apeirohedrons
plural of apeirohedron

apizza
A style of pizza endemic to New Haven, Connecticut, incorporating a thin, oblong crust, charring, oregano, and tomato sauce but only a small amount of grated parmesan cheese.

apizzas
plural of apizza

apostilb
a unit of luminance, being the luminance of a perfectly diffusing surface emitting light at the rate of ¹⁄_π candela per square metre. Also known as a blondel.

apostilbs
plural of apostilb

apoxia
altitude sickness

applanche
A large number of apples falling down like an avalanche.

applanches
plural of applanche

applicatorful
The amount that will fill an applicator

applicatorfuls
plural of applicatorful

aquametrics
The analysis of trace amounts of water in a sample

aquaplanet
Synonym of ocean world.

aquaplanets
plural of aquaplanet