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  • AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION

    AFFECTION, Affectio, in Physics, a Quality or Property of some natural Being. See QUALITY, and PROPERTY. The Schoolmen define Affection an Attribute proper to any Being, arising from the Essence thereof. See ATTRIBUTE, PROPER, etc. Affections are...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    ATMOSPHERE, Ἀτμόσφαιρα an Appendage of our Earth; consisting of a thin, fluid, elastic Substance, called Air, surrounding the Terraqueous Globe, to a considerable Height. See EARTH. By atmosphere is usually understood the whole Mass or Assemblage of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADHESIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ADHESION

    ADHESION, Adherence, in Physics, is the state of two bodies that are joined or fastened to each other, either by the mutual interposition of their own parts, or the compression of external bodies. See COHESION, and NEXUS. The word is compounded of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ACROTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ACROTERIA

    ACROTERIA, or Acroteres, in Architecture, little pedestals, usually without bases, placed at the middle, and at the two extremes of frontispieces or pediments; and serving to support statues. See PEDESTAL and STATUE. Those at the extremes ought to be...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Architecture

  • ADMINICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ADMINICLE

    ADMINICLE, Adminiculum, Adminiculatum, a term used in some ancient statutes, for aid, help, or support.See AID, etc. In the civil jurisprudence, adminiculum signifies the beginning of a proof; an imperfect proof; a circumstance or conjecture, tending to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • ASPHALITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALITES

    ASPHALITES,in Anatomy, the fifth Vertebra of the Loins. See VERTEBRA. It is thus called because conceived as the Support of the whole Spine of the Loins; from the Privative α and σφαλλω I supplant.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATLANTIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIDES

    ATLANTIDES, among the Poets See VERGILIUS. ATLAS, in Architecture is a Name given to those Figures, or Half-Figures of Men, so much used instead of Columns, or Pilasters; to support any Member of Architecture, as a Balcony, or the like. See COLUMN,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARC-BOUTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARC-BOUTANT

    ARC-BOUTANT, in building, a flat arch or part of an arch abutting against the reins of a vault, to support, and prevent its giving way. See VAULT. Arc-boutants are only arched buttresses. The name is French; formed of arc and boutant, to abut....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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