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DROPPINGOFF |
Decreasing |
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GOING |
Decreasing, ... down |
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SPIRAL |
Ever decreasing circle |
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WANING |
The act or process of waning, or decreasing. |
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DECRESCENT |
Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a
decrescent moon. |
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PARACMASTIC |
Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a
distemper. |
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SCISSORS-TAILED |
Having the outer feathers much the longest, the
others decreasing regularly to the median ones. |
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TURBINATED |
Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large
base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells. |
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KATABOLIC |
Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes,
which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and
increasing stability. |
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DECRESCENDO |
With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction
to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or
Decresc.), or indicated by the sign. |
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FLEXION |
The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint
which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the
axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension. |
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CRESCENT |
The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or
when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly
to the old or decreasing moon in a like state. |
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BISON |
...
region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers. ... |