Crossword-Solution: TRANSLATORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Translatory | a. | Serving to translate; transferring. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “TRANSLATORY”
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| of, relating to, or involving uniform motion in one direction | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ROLDSA
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with TRANSLATORY (5)
Let the rarest of these ethers be that whose vibrations cause the phenomena of light,--the next denser that which, either by vibration or translatory motion, causes the electrical phenomena,-- and the most dense of the three that which by its motions, of whatever sort, causes the phenomena of heat.
Whatever it may be that gives relief to this condensation, the relief itself consists in motion, either translatory or vibratory, of the electrical ether or ethers.
The marvellous translatory movements of crustal folds from south to north arising in the genesis of the Swiss Alps, which recent research has brought to light, is another example of these movements of relief, which continue to take place perhaps for many millions of years after they are initiated.
For directed translatory movements cannot be transmitted through a fluid, pressure in which is necessarily hydrostatic, and must be exerted equally in every direction.
That is to say, they may result in folding and crushing, or horizontally transporting, the upper layers of the Earth's crust; but in the deeper-lying viscous materials they must be resolved into hydrostatic pressure which may act to upheave the overlying covering, but must refuse to transmit the horizontal translatory movements affecting the rigid materials above.