(computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.
The act or process of acquiring.
The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
acquisitional
acquisitional
adj
Of or relating to acquisition.
acquisitions
acquisitions
noun
plural of acquisition
acquophonia
alcornoque
alcornoque
noun
The plant Bowdichia virgilioides.
altiloquence
altiloquence
noun
Pompous language; lofty speech.
aquintocubital
aquintocubital
adj
Alternative form of aquincubital
aquintocubitalism
aquocarbonic
aquopentamminecobaltic
blandiloquence
blandiloquence
noun
(archaic) flattery [from 17th c.]
breviloquence
breviloquence
noun
A pertinent and terse style of speech.
bronchiloquy
catoquina
centiloquy
centiloquy
noun
A work divided into a hundred parts.
chiloquin
chlorohydroquinone
chloroquine
chloroquine
noun
(pharmacology) A 4-aminoquinoline drug used to treat and prevent malaria, having the chemical formula C₁₈H₂₆ClN₃.
chloroquines
chloroquines
noun
plural of chloroquine
chontaquiro
chronique
chronique
noun
(obsolete) A chronicle.
cinquecento
cinquecento
adj
(art) Sixteenth-century (1500s).
noun
(art) The sixteenth century (1500s).
cinquecentos
cinquefoil
cinquefoil
noun
(heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf with five lobes.
(topology) A particular knot of five crossings.
A potentilla (flower).
cinquefoiled
cinquefoiled
adj
Having five lobes or having the shape of a cinquefoil.
cinquefoils
cinquefoils
noun
plural of cinquefoil
coconqueror
codelinquency
codelinquent
coequalness
coequalness
noun
The state or quality of being coequal.
coequating
coequating
verb
present participle of coequate
coequation
coinquinate
colliquament
colliquament
noun
The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
colliquation
colliquation
noun
(medicine) The wasting-away of parts of the body; consumption.
The act of becoming liquid; melting.
colliquativeness
colliquefaction
colliquefaction
noun
(obsolete) A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
colloquialness
colloquialness
noun
The state or quality of being colloquial.
colloquizing
colloquizing
verb
present participle of colloquize
coloquintid
coloquintid
noun
(obsolete) colocynth
coloquintida
coloquintida
noun
(obsolete) Colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit.
communiqu
communique
communique
noun
Alternative form of communiqué
communiques
communiques
noun
Misspelling of communiqués.
conquassate
conquassate
verb
(obsolete, transitive, rare) To shake; to agitate.
conquedle
conquer
conquer
verb
(dated) To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
To acquire by force of arms, win in war; to become ruler of; to subjugate.
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
To overcome an abstract obstacle.
conquerable
conquerable
adj
Capable of being conquered or subdued.
conquerableness
conquerableness
noun
The quality of being conquerable.
conquered
conquered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conquer
conquerer
conquerer
noun
One who conquers
conquerers
conquerers
noun
plural of conquerer
conqueress
conqueress
noun
A female conqueror.
conquering
conquering
noun
gerund of conquer: an act of conquest.
verb
present participle of conquer
conqueringly
conqueringly
adv
So as to conquer.
conquerment
conquerment
noun
The state of being conquered.
conqueror
conqueror
noun
Someone who conquers.
conquerors
conquerors
noun
plural of conqueror
conquers
conquers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conquer
conquest
conquest
noun
(colloquial, figurative) A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
(figuratively, by extension) An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle.
(obsolete, feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.
That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
verb
(archaic) To conquer.
(marketing) To compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor.
conquests
conquests
noun
plural of conquest
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conquest
conquian
conquian
noun
(card games) A card game, an ancestor of rummy.
conquians
conquinamine
conquinamine
noun
(organic chemistry) quinidamine
conquinine
conquinine
noun
Synonym of quinidine
conquisition
conquistador
conquistador
noun
A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish soldiers that invaded Central and South America otherwise known as the doorways to the new world, in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs.
conquistadores
conquistadores
noun
plural of conquistador
conquistadors
consequence
consequence
noun
(especially when preceded by "of") Importance, value, or influence.
A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
A result of actions, especially if such a result is unwanted or unpleasant.
Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
Importance with respect to what comes after.
That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause.
The power to influence or produce an effect.
verb
(transitive) To threaten or punish (a child, etc.) with specific consequences for misbehaviour.
consequences
consequences
noun
An old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each player in turn writing a part of the story, not knowing what the others have written.
plural of consequence
consequency
consequent
consequent
adj
(geology) Of a stream, having a course determined by the slope it formed on.
Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
Of or pertaining to consequences.
noun
(geology) A consequent stream.
(logic) The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
(mathematics) The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent.
An event which follows another.
consequential
consequential
adj
(of a person) Self-important.
Following as a result.
Having significant consequences; of importance.
Important or significant.
consequentialities
consequentialities
noun
plural of consequentiality
consequentiality
consequentiality
noun
The property of being consequential.
consequentially
consequentially
adv
In a consequential manner; with consequence or significance.
consequentialness
consequentialness
noun
the quality or state of being consequential
consequently
consequently
adv
(conjunctive) As a result or consequence of something; subsequently.
(sequence, obsolete) subsequently, following after in time or sequence.
consequents
consequents
noun
plural of consequent
contramarque
coquelin
coquetoon
coquetting
coquetting
noun
coquetry
verb
present participle of coquet
coquettishness
coquettishness
noun
The state or quality of being coquettish.
coquicken
coquin
coquina
coquina
noun
(countable) Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States coastal waters.
(uncountable, geology) A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building or road paving material.
coquinas
coquinas
noun
plural of coquina
corinthianesque
cotquean
cotquean
noun
Alternative form of cot-quean
cotqueans
cotqueans
noun
plural of cotquean
counteracquittance
counterconquest
counterconquest
noun
A conquest made in opposition to another, as by a previously conquered entity.
counterequivalent
counterquartered
counterquartered
adj
(heraldry) Doubly divided into quarters, so that each quarter is itself quartered.
counterquarterly
counterquery
counterquery
noun
A counterquestion.
counterquestion
counterquestion
noun
A question that serves as a reply to, or distraction from, another.
counterquestions
counterquestions
noun
plural of counterquestion
counterquip
counterquip
noun
A quip made in response to another quip.
cowanesque
croqueting
croqueting
verb
present participle of croquet
croquignole
croquignole
noun
Alternative form of crokinole
croquignoles
disqualification
disqualification
noun
(basketball): The act of being forbidden from further play in a basketball game due to the accumulation of too many personal fouls.
That which disqualifies; that which causes someone to be unfit for a certain purpose or role
The act of disqualifying, or the state of being disqualified
disqualifications
disqualifications
noun
plural of disqualification
dulciloquent
dulciloquent
adj
(literary, rare) Speaking sweetly.
eequinoctium
eloquence
eloquence
noun
(countable) An eloquent utterance.
The quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
equianchorate
equianharmonic
equianharmonic
adj
(mathematics) equally anharmonic; specifically, whose anharmonic ratio is a cube root of unity
noun
(geometry) A set of four points whose cross ratio (or anharmonic ratio) is a cube root of 1.
equicontinuous
equicontinuous
adj
(mathematics, of a family of functions) Such that all members are continuous, with equal variation in a given neighborhood.
equiconvex
equiconvex
adj
(optics, of a lens) Having surfaces with the same radius of curvature.
equilocation
equinoctial
equinoctial
adj
(astronomy) Of or relating to the celestial equator.
(astronomy) Of or relating to the spring or autumnal equinox.
(uncommon) Equatorial: Of or relating to the equator of the Earth.
noun
(rare) The terrestrial equator.
An equinoctial gale.
The great circle midway between the celestial poles; the celestial equator.
equinoctially
equinoctially
adv
In an equinoctial manner; relative to the equinox.
equinoctials
equinoctials
noun
plural of equinoctial
equipollence
equipollence
noun
(logic) Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language.
The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
equipollency
equipollency
noun
Alternative form of equipollence
equiponderance
equiponderance
noun
The state of being equal in weight; equipoise
equiponderancy
equiponderancy
noun
Archaic form of equiponderance.
equiproducing
equisonance
equisonance
noun
(music) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.
equivocalness
equivocalness
noun
The state of being equivocal; ambiguity
equivocating
equivocating
verb
present participle of equivocate
equivocatingly
equivocatingly
adv
With equivocation.
equivocation
equivocation
noun
(logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
equivocations
equivocations
noun
plural of equivocation
foreacquaint
foreacquaint
verb
(transitive) To make familiar (with something) in advance.
grandiloquence
grandiloquence
noun
Lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing.
gyrofrequencies
gyrofrequencies
noun
plural of gyrofrequency
gyrofrequency
gyrofrequency
noun
(physics) The frequency of the circular motion of a charged particle in the presence of a uniform magnetic field.
hacqueton
holoquinonic
inconquerable
inconquerable
adj
That cannot be conquered; unconquerable.
inconsequence
inconsequence
noun
The state or quality of being inconsequent.
inconsequences
inconsequences
noun
plural of inconsequence
inconsequent
inconsequent
adj
(archaic) Alternative form of inconsequential
illogical; not following from the premises
inconsequentia
inconsequentia
noun
Trivia; items or facts of little or no importance.
inconsequential
inconsequential
adj
Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.
Not logically following from the premises.
noun
Something unimportant; something that does not matter.
inconsequentiality
inconsequentiality
noun
(countable) anything that is inconsequential
(uncountable) the property of being inconsequential
inconsequentially
inconsequentially
adv
In an inconsequential manner.
inconsequently
inconsequently
adv
In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence
inconsequentness
inconsequentness
noun
inconsequence
ineloquence
ineloquence
noun
The state or condition of being ineloquent.
inequicostate
interequinoctial
interequinoctial
adj
Coming between the equinoxes.
isoquercitrin
isoquercitrin
noun
(organic chemistry) A flavonoid glycoside, isolated from mangoes or from the giant rhubarb, that has anti-inflammatory activity
jacqueminot
jacqueminot
noun
A variety of deep crimson rose.
leucoquinizarin
lincolnesque
lincolnesque
Adjective
Suggestive of
liquefaction
liquefaction
noun
Process of being, or state of having been, made liquid (from either a solid or a gas)
The liquid or semiliquid that results from this process.