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Meanings of Octode:

noun

A thermionic valve with eight electrodes, used especially as a frequency changer in a superheterodyne receiver.

Meanings of Octodecimo:

noun

A size of book page resulting from folding each printed sheet into eighteen leaves (36 pages).

Usage examples:

Rawles describes an octodecimo printed by wechel and owned by a scot.

Meanings of Octodecimos:

noun

A size of book page resulting from folding each printed sheet into eighteen leaves (36 pages).

Usage examples:

Rawles describes an octodecimo printed by wechel and owned by a scot.

Meanings of Octodentate:

adjective

Having eight teeth.

Meanings of Octodon:

noun

A genus of rat-like rodents (the degus) of the family octodontidae, native to the andes and western coastal areas of south america; (also octodon) a rodent of this genus, a degu (now rare).

Meanings of Octodont:

adjective

Of or relating to the genus octodon or the family octodontidae, containing the degus and related rodents.

noun

An octodont rodent; a degu.

Meanings of Octofoil:

adjective

Having or consisting of eight leaves or lobes.

Usage examples:

The candle socket, octofoil in outline, is formed of square fluting.

noun

An octofoil ornamental or heraldic figure.

Usage examples:

Thus the ninth son of a ninth son would place an octofoil upon an octofoil.

Meanings of Octogenarian:

noun

A person who is between 80 and 89 years old.

Usage examples:

The octogenarian is making his tv writing debut

Meanings of Octogenarianism:

noun

The state or fact of being an octogenarian.

Meanings of Octogenarians:

noun

A person who is between 80 and 89 years old.

Usage examples:

The octogenarian is making his tv writing debut

Meanings of Octogenaries:

noun

The state or fact of being an octogenarian.

Meanings of Octogenary:

noun

The state or fact of being an octogenarian.

Meanings of Octomeral:

adjective

Having parts arranged in groups of eight; = "octamerous".

Meanings of Octonal:

adjective

Octonary.

Meanings of Octonarian:

adjective

Consisting of eight feet.

Meanings of Octonarius:

noun

A verse of eight feet.

Meanings of Octonary:

adjective

Relating to or based on the number eight.

Usage examples:

Base 8 is called octonary or octal.

Meanings of Octonion:

noun

A type of hypercomplex number with eight coefficients, having the form x = x0 + x1e1 + x2e2 + x3e3 + x4e4 + x5e5 + x6e6 + x7e7, where the xn are real numbers and the en are imaginary units which, in conjunction with 1 and −1, form a closed, non-commutative, non-associative system under multiplication. compare "octad", "octave".

Meanings of Octopartite:

adjective

Divided into or consisting of eight parts. formerly: (law) †(of a contract, indenture, etc.) drawn up in eight corresponding parts, one for each party (obsolete).

Meanings of Octopean:

adjective

Relating to or like (that of) an octopus; octopoid.

Meanings of Octoped:

noun

An eight-footed animal or thing.

Meanings of Octopi:

noun

A sea creature with a soft oval body and eight tentacles (= arms)

Meanings of Octopine:

noun

An amino acid of the opine group, c₉ h₁₈ n₄ o₄, found in the tissues of some cephalopods and lamellibranch molluscs and also synthesized by plant cells infected by certain strains of the crown gall pathogen agrobacterium tumefaciens.

Meanings of Octoploid:

adjective

Containing eight homologous sets of chromosomes (i.e. four times the diploid complement); made up of somatic cells of this kind.

noun

An octoploid individual, type, or species.

Meanings of Octoploidy:

noun

The state or condition of being octoploid.