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Hypotarsal
Hypotarsus Hy`po*tar"sus, n.; pl. Hypotarsi. [NL. See Hypo-, and Tarsus.] (Anat.) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process. -- Hy`po*tar"sal, a.
Hypotarsi
Hypotarsus Hy`po*tar"sus, n.; pl. Hypotarsi. [NL. See Hypo-, and Tarsus.] (Anat.) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process. -- Hy`po*tar"sal, a.
Hypotarsus
Hypotarsus Hy`po*tar"sus, n.; pl. Hypotarsi. [NL. See Hypo-, and Tarsus.] (Anat.) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process. -- Hy`po*tar"sal, a.
Hypotenuse
Hypotenuse Hy*pot"e*nuse, Hypothenuse Hy*poth"e*nuse, n. [L. hypotenusa, Gr. ?, prob., subtending (sc. ?), fr. ? to stretch under, subtend; ? under + ? to stretch. See Subtend.] (Geom.) The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.
Hypotheca
Hypotheca Hy`po*the"ca, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a thing subject to some obligation, fr. ? to put under, put down, pledge. See Hypothesis.] (Rom. Law) An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt. Note: It differed from pledge in regard to possession of the property subject to the obligation; pledge requiring, simple hypotheca not requiring, possession of it by the creditor. The modern mortgage corresponds very closely with it. --Kent.
Hypothecate
Hypothecate Hy*poth"e*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hypothecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Hypothecating.] [LL. hypothecatus, p. p. of hypothecare to pledge, fr. L. hypotheca pledge, security. See Hypotheca.] (Law) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. --Macaulay.
Hypothecated
Hypothecate Hy*poth"e*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hypothecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Hypothecating.] [LL. hypothecatus, p. p. of hypothecare to pledge, fr. L. hypotheca pledge, security. See Hypotheca.] (Law) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. --Macaulay.
Hypothecating
Hypothecate Hy*poth"e*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hypothecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Hypothecating.] [LL. hypothecatus, p. p. of hypothecare to pledge, fr. L. hypotheca pledge, security. See Hypotheca.] (Law) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. --Macaulay.
Hypothecation
Hypothecation Hy*poth`e*ca"tion, n. [LL. hypothecatio.] 1. (Civ. Law) The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re. --Pothier. B. R. Curtis. There are but few cases, if any, in our law, where an hypothecation, in the strict sense of the Roman law, exists; that is a pledge without possession by the pledgee. --Story. Note: In the modern civil law, this contract has no application to movable property, not even to ships, to which and their cargoes it is most frequently applied in England and America. See Hypothecate. --B. R. Curtis. Domat. 2. (Law of Shipping) A contract whereby, in consideration of money advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety. It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry. Note: This term is often applied to mortgages of ships.
Hypothecator
Hypothecator Hy*poth"e*ca`tor, n. (Law) One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Hypothenal
Hypothenal Hy*poth"e*nal, Hypothenar Hy*poth"e*nar, a. [Pref. hypo- + thenar.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence.
Hypothenar
Hypothenal Hy*poth"e*nal, Hypothenar Hy*poth"e*nar, a. [Pref. hypo- + thenar.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence.
Hypothenar
Hypothenar Hy*poth"e*nar, n. (Anat.) The hypothenar eminence.
Hypothenusal
Hypothenusal Hy*poth`e*nu"sal, a. Of or pertaining to hypothenuse. [R.]
Hypothenuse
Hypothenuse Hy*poth"e*nuse, n. Same as Hypotenuse.
Hypothenuse
Hypotenuse Hy*pot"e*nuse, Hypothenuse Hy*poth"e*nuse, n. [L. hypotenusa, Gr. ?, prob., subtending (sc. ?), fr. ? to stretch under, subtend; ? under + ? to stretch. See Subtend.] (Geom.) The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.
Hypotheses
Hypothesis Hy*poth"e*sis, n.; pl. Hypotheses. [NL., fr. Gr. ? foundation, supposition, fr. ? to place under, ? under + ? to put. See Hypo-, Thesis.] 1. A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer. An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination. --J. S. Mill. 2. (Natural Science) A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis. Syn: Supposition; assumption. See Theory. Nebular hypothesis. See under Nebular.
Hypothesis
Hypothesis Hy*poth"e*sis, n.; pl. Hypotheses. [NL., fr. Gr. ? foundation, supposition, fr. ? to place under, ? under + ? to put. See Hypo-, Thesis.] 1. A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer. An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination. --J. S. Mill. 2. (Natural Science) A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis. Syn: Supposition; assumption. See Theory. Nebular hypothesis. See under Nebular.
Hypothetist
Hypothetist Hy*poth"e*tist, n. One who proposes or supports an hypothesis. [R.]
hypotrachelium
Gorgerin Gor`ge*rin", n. [F., fr. gorge neck.] (Arch.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.
Hypotrachelium
Hypotrachelium Hy`po*tra*che"li*um, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? under + ? neck.] (Arch.) Same as Gorgerin.
Hypotricha
Hypotricha Hy*pot"ri*cha, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + ?, ?, a hair.] (Zo["o]l.) A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.
Hypotrochoid
Hypotrochoid Hy`po*tro"choid, n. [Pref. hypo- + trochoid.] (Geom.) A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid.
Hypotyposis
Hypotyposis Hy`po*ty*po"sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to sketch out; ? under + ? to impress.] (Rhet.) A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.
Nebular hypothesis
Nebular Neb"u*lar, a. Of or pertaining to nebul[ae]; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process of formation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms by Kant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, it supposed the matter of the solar system to have existed originally in the form of a vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, gradually cooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical and physical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, by the same laws, were produced the several planets, satellites, and other bodies of the system. The phrase may indicate any hypothesis according to which the stars or the bodies of the solar system have been evolved from a widely diffused nebulous form of matter.
Nebular hypothesis
Hypothesis Hy*poth"e*sis, n.; pl. Hypotheses. [NL., fr. Gr. ? foundation, supposition, fr. ? to place under, ? under + ? to put. See Hypo-, Thesis.] 1. A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer. An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination. --J. S. Mill. 2. (Natural Science) A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis. Syn: Supposition; assumption. See Theory. Nebular hypothesis. See under Nebular.
Rehypothecate
Rehypothecate Re`hy*poth"e*cate (r?`h?*p?th"?*k?t), v. t. (Law) To hypothecate again. -- Re`hy*poth`e*ca"tion, n.
Rehypothecation
Rehypothecate Re`hy*poth"e*cate (r?`h?*p?th"?*k?t), v. t. (Law) To hypothecate again. -- Re`hy*poth`e*ca"tion, n.
theory or hypothesis
Glacial Gla"cial, a. [L. glacialis, from glacies ice: cf. F. glacial.] 1. Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena. --Lyell. 2. (Chem.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids. Glacial acid (Chem.), an acid of such strength or purity as to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike form; as acetic or carbolic acid. Glacial drift (Geol.), earth and rocks which have been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder drift. Glacial epoch or period (Geol.), a period during which the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphere to the mountain tops. Glacial theory or hypothesis. (Geol.) See Glacier theory, under Glacier.
vasohypotonic
Vasodilator Vas`o*di*lat"or, a.[L. vas a vessel + dilator.] (Physiol.) Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vaso-inhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.

Meaning of Hypot from wikipedia

- E=mc^{2}\oplus pc.} It is implemented in many programming libraries as the hypot function, in a way designed to avoid errors arising due to limited-precision...
- {a^{2}+b^{2}}}.} Many computer languages support the ISO C standard function hypot(x,y), which returns the value above. The function is designed not to fail...
- following is a simple demonstration in JavaScript (ES6): // 'hypot' is a binary function const hypot = (x, y) => Math.sqrt(x * x + y * y); // 'thunk' is a function...
- and huv is the hue: C u v ∗ = hypot ⁡ ( u ∗ , v ∗ ) = ( u ∗ ) 2 + ( v ∗ ) 2 , {\displaystyle C_{uv}^{*}=\operatorname {hypot} (u^{*},v^{*})={\sqrt...
- should be the result. Thus for example the value returned by hypot(±∞, qNaN) and hypot(qNaN, ±∞) is +∞. The problem is particularly acute for the exponentiation...
- r = x 2 + y 2 = hypot ⁡ ( x , y ) φ = atan2 ⁡ ( y , x ) , {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}r&={\sqrt {x^{2}+y^{2}}}=\operatorname {hypot} (x,y)\\\varphi...
- avoiding this problem (Golub & Van Loan 1996, §5.1.8) is implemented as the hypot function in many programming languages. The following Fortran code is a...
- \left(\mathbf {G} _{y},\mathbf {G} _{x}\right)} , where G can be computed using the hypot function and atan2 is the arctangent function with two arguments. The edge...
- double x1, final double y1, final double x2, final double y2 ) { return Math.hypot(x1 - x2, y1 - y2); } } // Scala class Point( var x: Double, var y: Double...
- number Power functions sqrt computes square root cbrt computes cubic root hypot computes square root of the sum of the squares of two given numbers pow...