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about |
to the opposite direction. [1/8 definitions] |
about face |
a military command to turn and face the opposite direction. |
about-face |
to turn to the opposite direction, opinion, or the like; reverse oneself. [1/3 definitions] |
adverse |
moving in an opposite direction. [1/3 definitions] |
against |
in the opposite direction to. [1/3 definitions] |
alternate angles |
a pair of nonadjacent angles that are formed on opposite sides of a line where it crosses two others transversely. |
altitude |
in geometry, a perpendicular line segment that extends from one vertex of a figure to the opposite edge or face, or the length of such a line segment; height. [1/4 definitions] |
ambivalent |
of feelings and emotions, conflicting; pulling in opposite directions. [1/2 definitions] |
antagonist |
one muscle that causes movement in the opposite direction from that caused by another. [1/3 definitions] |
antagonistic |
having opposite effects, or acting in different directions, as a pair of muscles. [1/2 definitions] |
anti- |
opposite; reverse of. [1/3 definitions] |
anticline |
a formation of rock layers characterized by two downward slopes going in opposite directions from a central crest. (Cf. syncline.) |
antimatter |
in physics, matter having particles comparable to those of common matter, but with opposite electrical charges or magnetic characteristics. |
antiparticle |
in physics, either of two subatomic particles that have the same mass, spin, degree of charge, and magnetic moment but that have opposite signs of charge and directions of magnetic moment and whose collision causes mutual annihilation. |
antipode |
a direct opposite. |
antipodes |
places directly opposite each other on the surface of the earth, as the North Pole and the South Pole. |
antithesis |
the exact opposite (usu. fol. by "to" or "of"). [1/2 definitions] |
antitrades |
westerly winds moving above and opposite to the trade winds in the tropics. |
antonym |
a word that has the opposite meaning of another word. |
around |
in or to the opposite direction. [1/11 definitions] |
au contraire |
on the opposite side. [1/2 definitions] |
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