Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the quality or character of ablation.
Wiktionary
- adj. Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force - Sir J. Herschel
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Diminishing.
Examples
“If we only consider the mean or average effect in orbits nearly circular, this force may be considered as an ablatitious force at all distances below the mean, counterbalanced by an opposite effect at all distances above the mean.”
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
“This fraction is, however, too small, as the ablatitious action of the sun diminishes the attraction of the earth on the moon, in the ratio of”
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
“In other positions it is, therefore, as the cosines of the eccentric anomaly, as in the former case; but in this last case it is an addititious force at the perihelion, and an ablatitious force at the aphelion, whereas the first disturbing force was an ablatitious force at the perihelion, and an addititious force at the aphelion; therefore, as we must suppose the planet to be in equilibrium at its mean distance, it is in equilibrium at all distances.”
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
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A to abominator (Chambers)
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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On a Related Note
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biocon Ablatitious = "(t)hat is to be subtracted; subtractive. Chiefly Astron.: designating forces which must be subtracted in calculating the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth, the earth on the oceans, etc." (Oxford English Dictionary). Aug 30, 2011