evanescent

suomi-englanti sanakirja

evanescent englannista suomeksi

  1. katoava, haihtuva

  1. Verbi

evanescent englanniksi

  1. Disappearing, vanishing.

  2. (antonyms)

  3. (quote-journal) By Mr. Marshall (agricultural writer)|William Humphrey Marshall. 4to. 12s. boards. Dodsley. review|newspaper=Critical Review|The Critical Revie Or, Annals of Literature|series=Series the Fifth|location=London|publisher=Printed for A. Hamilton,(nb...)|month=January|year=1779|volume=XLVII|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=tIdHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25|oclc=1015384402|passage=He cannot ſuppreſs his diſapprobation (..) of thoſe evaneſcent echoes of ſchool philoſophy, faint-warbling through the grove of letters, to the injury of natural and ſcientific knowledge, and the annoyance of English literature.

  4. (RQ:Hawthorne Twice-Told Tales) In their airy flutterings, they seemed to rest on the evanescent spray.

  5. (RQ:Green Initials Only)

  6. Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source.

  7. (quote-book)

  8. Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.

  9. (RQ:Newton Mathematical Principles) I choſe rather to reduce the demonſtrations of the following propoſitions to the firſt and laſt ſums and ratio's of naſcent and evaneſcent quantities, that is, to the limits of thoſe ſums and ratio's; (..) Perhaps it may be objected, that there is no ultimate proportion of evaneſcent quantities; becauſe the proportion, before the quantities have vaniſhed, is not the ultimate, and when they are vaniſhed, is none. (..) By the ultimate ratio of evaneſcent quantities is to be underſtood the ratio of the quantities, not before they vaniſh, nor afterwards, but with which they vaniſh.

  10. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Tonson|Jacob Tonson(nb...)|year=1734|section=XXXV|page=59|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/analystordiscour00berkrich/page/59/mode/1up|oclc=471944203|passage=And what are theſe Fluxions? The Velocities of evaneſcent Increments? And what are theſe ſame evaneſcent Increments? They are neither finite Quantities, nor Quantities infinitely ſmall, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the Ghoſts of departed Quantities?

  11. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Tonson|Jacob Tonson|year=1735|section=paragraph XLIV|page=55|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cwUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA55|oclc=723081553|passage=Some hold the evaneſcent increments to be real quantities, ſome to be nothings, ſome to be limits. As many Men, ſo many minds: Each differing one from another, and all from Sir ''Newton|Iſaac Newton''.

  12. Barely there; almost imperceptible.

  13. (quote-journal)'', Royal Society Secretary, Concerning the Manner of Making Microscopes, &c. Norwich, August 11, 1709 &91;calendar&93;|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World|location=London|publisher=Printed for H. Clements(...), and W. Innys(...), and D. Brown(nb...)|date=(J2G)|year_published=January–March 1710 (1712 printing)|volume=XXVII|issue=325|page=26|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=c8ReAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA26|oclc=630046584|passage=If the Fluids moving in an Evaneſcent Artery ''i.e.'', a capillary appear Globular, I ſuppose its becauſe the Canal is round, which alters the Caſe much.

  14. (quote-book), for (publishers)|John and Francis Rivington,(nb...)|year=1767|volume=III|page=163|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzQ3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA163|oclc=963702434|passage=Here are Sholes and Sholes, of various Characters, and of the moſt diverſified Sizes; from the ''gigantic'' Whale, whoſe flouncings "tempeſt the Ocean," to the ''evaneſcent'' Anchovy, whoſe Subſtance diſſolves in the ſmalleſt Fircaſſee.

  15. (RQ:Hardy Wessex Tales)

  16. (RQ:Conrad Secret Agent)

  17. (quote-book)|chapter=Return from Pittsburgh|translator=Alfred J. Morrison|title=Travels in the Confederation 1783–1784: From the German|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=William J. Campbell|year=1911|volume=I (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia)|page=290|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pX9LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA290|oclc=24034529|passage=If in the middle of summer the water of Turkey Creek (..) is whipped and beaten with a stick, and then if a fire-brand is passed over, a mist is enkindled and a faint evanescent flame runs over the entire width of the brook.

  18. (RQ:Lawrence Twilight in Italy)

  19. (quote-book) then there would still be quantum fluctuations of fields and virtual particles, bouncing to and fro against the wall of nothing. Ironically enough, this piece of space, filled with so many evanescent entities, is nowadays called vacuum. However, this vacuum is not nothing. It is a quantum vacuum to which the argument of the Ancient Greeks does not apply.

  20. Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.

  21. (quote-book) Translated from the Latin,(nb...)|edition=2nd corrected and enlarged|location=London|publisher=Printed by J. Stephens, for W. Thurlbourn(nb...); and sold by J. Knapton, R. Knaplock and W. Innys(nb...)|year=1732|section=section II (Of the Enquiry after the First Cause), paragraph X|page=33|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y48PAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA6-PA33|oclc=912657477|passage=It is to be obſerved, farther, that when we annihilate any thing in our Mind, we conſider it as ſomething evaneſcent, and removed out of Sight; (..)

  22. (quote-book)|chapter=No. XLVII|title=The Gleaner. A Miscellaneous Production. In Three Volumes|location=printed at Boston, Mass.|publisher=By I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews,(nb...)|month=February|year=1798|volume=II|page=138|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044054765649&view=1up&seq=144|oclc=173654846|passage=But alas! how momentary was the bliss!—the evaneſcent viſion ſoon fled, and the youthful queen &91;(w)&93; was arrayed in the melancholy garb of widowhood!

  23. (RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)

  24. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

  25. Of plant parts: shed after a period.

  26. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Osborne (publisher)|Thomas Osborne,(nb...); T. Trye,(nb...); S. Crowder and Co.,(nb...); and H. Woodgate,(nb...)|month=February|year=1757|issue=XXII|section=section I (Flora, or the Pleasure-garden)|page=253|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CZCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA253|column=2|oclc=270816461|passage=Upward it the "apennine adonis", probably the Pyrenean pheasant's eye (''Adonis pyrenaica'') is of a pale green, with ſome Tinge of yellowiſh; and it is all the Way duſted with little grey tranſparent Globules. Theſe are the Extremities of ſo many round evaneſcent ſecretory Ducts; as the Hairs of other Plants are the more permanent Extremities of theirs.

  27. (quote-book) of the Genera Plantarum, and of the Mantissæ Plantarum of the Elder Linneus, and from the Supplementum Plantarum of the Younger Linneus,(nb...)|location=Lichfield, Staffordshire|publisher=Printed by John Jackson; sold by Johnson (publisher)|Joseph Johnson,(nb...); T. Byrne,(nb...); and J. Balfour,(nb...)|year=1787|volume=I|section=class XXII (Two Houses (Dioecia)), section XIII (One Brotherhood (Monadelphia))|page=706|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lk_GhEuQP-gC&pg=PA706|oclc=728419007|passage=Perianth. ''Berry'' from the receptacle elongated into a cup globular, ſucculent, gaging at the top, colour'd, at length waſting from dryneſs, evaneſcent.

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