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Pawl

ratchet wheel in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse as in a windlass a catch click or detent See Illust of Ratchet Wheel

Parelectronomy

of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed

Oblanceolate

Lanceolate in the reversed order that is narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex

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Nonelastic

Not having elasticity not able to be stretched reversibly

Link motion

adjustable connecting bar called the link in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed or the cut off varied at will used very generally in locomotives and marine engines

Joules cycle

it expands adiabatically to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted This cycle reversed is used in refrigerating machines

Irreversible

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back incapable of being made to run backward as an irreversible engine an irreversible

VerbarHysteron proteron

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed hysterology as valet atque vivit ldquohe is well and livesrdquo

Heterophemy

saying in speech or in writing of that which one does not intend to say frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness

prints According to one method the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative After the dichromate has been washed out the film is soaked in glycerin and water As this

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