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Catelectrode

The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery

easement

easement [Anglo-French esement, literally, benefit, convenience, from Old French aisement, from aisier to ease, assist] : an interest in land owned by another that entitles its holder to a specific limited use or enjoyment (as the...

testimony

testimony pl: -nies [Latin testimonium, from testis witness] : evidence furnished by a witness under oath or affirmation and either orally or in an affidavit or deposition former testimony : testimony that a witness gives at...

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Misprision

Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight. All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every...

Zero

Zero, is a lowest point or lowest in order, Webster's Third New International Dictionary. It is a mathematical value, intermediate between negative and positive values, Random House Dictionary of English Language. Zero, represents the lowest point...

Shall not register

Shall not register, negative words are clearly prohibitory and are ordinarily used as a legislative device to make a statutory provision imperative. The words 'shall not register' are mandatory in character. The mandatory character is strengthened...

Semper pr'sumitur pro negante

Semper pr'sumitur pro negante, (The presumption is always in favour of the negative.) On an equal division of votes in the House of Lords the question passes in the negative [see Reg. v. Millis, (1844) 10...

Negatio destruit negationem, et ambo faciunt affirmativum

Negatio destruit negationem, et ambo faciunt affirmativum [Lat.], a negative destroys a negative, and both make an affirmative.

Printing in

A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph Portions such as the sky are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled...

Confession

Confession, a statement in order to amount to a 'confession' must either admit in terms the offence, or at any rate substantially all the facts which constitute the offence. An admission of an incriminating fact, howsoever...

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