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v. i. To apply. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The act of faith is applicated to the object. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. applicatio, fr. applicare: cf. F. application. See Apply. ] 1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing applied. [ 1913 Webster ]

He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the “moral” of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress might have been greater. J. Jay. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. applicatif, fr. L. applicare. See Apply. ] Capable of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

adv. By way of application. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n. That which applies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + plicate. ] Twice folded together. Henslow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Centuplicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Centuplicating. ] [ L. centuplicare. See Centuple, a. ] To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times. [ R. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. complicatus, p. p. of complicare to fold together. See Complex. ] 1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved. [ 1913 Webster ]

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Complicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Complicating. ] To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a complex manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Complexity. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of making something more complex.
Syn. -- complication. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. compliasion: cf. F. complication. ] 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity. [ 1913 Webster ]

A complication of diseases. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conduplicatus, p. p. of conduplicare. See Duplicate. ] (Bot.) Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conduplicatio. ] A doubling together or folding; a duplication. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. contortuplicatus; contortus contorted + plicare to fold. ] (Bot.) Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. de- + duplication. ] (Biol.) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. deplicare to unfold; L. de- + plicare to fold. ] An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biochem.) the process of testing samples of mixtures which are active in a screening process, so as to recognize and eliminate from consideration those active substances already studied; -- a stage subsequent to the preliminary screening in the process of discovery of new pharmacologically active substances in mixtures of natural products; -- also called counterscreening. See screening. In the process of pharmaceutical screening (testing a large number of substances to find those having desirable pharmacological activity), the testing of samples of substances extracted from living organisms (plants, microorganisms, etc.) often detects substances already detected in prior screening. Such “known” or “replicate” activities must be recognized at an early stage to avoid duplicating previous efforts at purification and structural identification. The process of testing an sample which is active in a primary screen, to determine if the activity is due to a previously known substance, is called dereplication or counterscreening. [ PJC ]

adj. capable of being duplicated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart. [ 1913 Webster ]

I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Duplicated p. pr. & vb. n. Duplicating. ] 1. To double; to fold; to render double. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. duplicatus, p. p. of duplicare to double, fr. duplex double, twofold. See Duplex. ] Double; twofold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Duplicate proportion or
Duplicate ratio (Math.), the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus, in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus, in 2, 4, 8, 16, the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicate of that of 2 to 4, or as the square of 2 is to the square of 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. duplicatio: cf. F. duplication. ] 1. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having the quality of duplicating or doubling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth. “Duplicative subdivision.” Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. duplicature. ] A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. explicatus, p. p. of explicare. ] Evolved; unfolded. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Explicated p. pr. & vb. n. Explicating ] 1. To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [ Obs. ] “They explicate the leaves.” Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. [ 1913 Webster ]

The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. explicatio: cf. F. explication. ] 1. The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sense given by an expositor. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. explicatif. ] Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Explicative. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Implicated p. pr. & vb. n. Implicating. ] [ L. implicatus, p. p. of implicare to involve; pref. im- in + plicare to fold. See Employ, Ply, and cf. Imply, Implicit. ] 1. To infold; to fold together; to interweave. [ 1913 Webster ]

The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. culpably involved; connected; -- of persons with respect to responsibility for events. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a charge that implicates someone (usually of wrongdoing).
Syn. -- implication. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. implicatio: cf. F. implication. ] 1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the king might do, it was a necessary implication that there were other things which he could not do. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. arousing a mental association; evocative.
Syn. -- implicative, suggestive, suggestive of(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Tending to implicate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By implication. Sir G. Buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + application: cf. F. inapplication. ] Lack of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) (a) Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in æstivation. (b) Having the edges rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping; -- said of leaves in vernation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) (a) Having induplicate sepals or petals in æstivation. (b) Having induplicate leaves in vernation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wrong application. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong explication. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. multiplicatus, p. p. of multiplicare. See Multiply. ] Consisting of many, or of more than one; multiple; multifold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Multiplicate flower (Bot.), a flower that is double, or has an unusual number of petals in consequence of the abnormal multiplication of the parts of the floral whorls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. multiplicatio: cf. F. multiplication. See Multiply. ] 1. The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The increase and multiplication of the world. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word multiplication is sometimes used in mathematics, particularly in multiple algebra, to denote any distributive operation expressed by one symbol upon any quantity or any thing expressed by another symbol. Corresponding extensions of meaning are given to the words multiply, multiplier, multiplicand, and product. Thus, since φ(x + y) = φx + φy (see under Distributive), where φ(x + y), φx, and φy indicate the results of any distributive operation represented by the symbol φ upon x + y, x, and y, severally, then because of many very useful analogies φ(x + y) is called the product of φ and x + y, and the operation indicated by φ is called multiplication. Cf. Facient, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) An increase above the normal number of parts, especially of petals; augmentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The art of increasing gold or silver by magic, -- attributed formerly to the alchemists. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Multiplication table, a table giving the product of a set of numbers multiplied in some regular way; commonly, a table giving the products of the first ten or twelve numbers multiplied successively by 1, 2, 3, etc., up to 10 or 12. Called also a times table, used by students in elementary school prior to memorization of the table. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. multiplicatif. ] Tending to multiply; having the power to multiply, or incease numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to multiply. [ 1913 Webster ]