Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Chem., having a valency represented by an odd number; noting an element which combines with odd numbers of atoms only.
- noun An atom whose valence is designated by an odd number, as hydrogen, whose valence is 1, or nitrogen, whose valence is 1, 3, or 5: so called in contradistinction to artiads, whose valence is represented by an even number, as sulphur, whose valence is 2, 4, or 6.
- noun In zoology, an odd-toed ungulate quadruped; a solidungulate animal; one of the perissodactyls: opposed to artiad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with
artiad .
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- adjective chemistry
odd ; noteven ; said of elementary substances and ofradicals whosevalence is notdivisible by two without aremainder .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek odd.
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There is no need to rehearse these powers much further; though not one-tenth of the supposed innate properties of this infinitesimal infinite have been recited -- properties which are expressed by the words atomicity, quantivilence, monad, dryad, univalent, perissad, quadrivalent, and twenty other terms, each expressing some endowment of power in this in visible atom.
Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871
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