combining weight — noun the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen • Syn: ↑equivalent, ↑equivalent weight, ↑eq • Hypernyms: ↑atomic mass, ↑atomic weight, ↑relative atomic… … Useful english dictionary
combining weight — Chem. the atomic weight of an atom or radical divided by its valence. * * * … Universalium
combining weight — equivalent w … Medical dictionary
Combining — may refer to: Combining capacity, in chemistry Combining character, in digital photography Combining form, in linguistics Combining grapheme joiner, Unicode character that has no visible glyph Combining Cyrillic Hundred Thousands, modifier in the … Wikipedia
weight — weighter, n. /wayt/, n. 1. the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs. 2. Physics. the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity: commonly taken, in a… … Universalium
weight — The product of the force of gravity, defined internationally as 9.80665 m/s2, times the mass of the body. [A.S. gewiht] apothecaries w. an obsolescent system of weights based upon the w. of a grain of wheat. Has been used for centuries in… … Medical dictionary
equivalent weight — Chem. the combining power, esp. in grams (gram equivalent), of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence. [1925 30] * * * or combining weight… … Universalium
equivalent weight — noun the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen • Syn: ↑equivalent, ↑combining weight, ↑eq • Hypernyms: ↑atomic mass, ↑atomic weight, ↑relative atomic… … Useful english dictionary
atomic weight — noun (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units • Syn: ↑atomic mass, ↑relative atomic mass • Topics: ↑chemistry, ↑chemical science • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Food combining — chart Food combining (also known as trophology) is a term for a nutritional approach that advocates specific combinations of foods as central to good health and weight loss (such as not mixing carbohydrate rich foods and protein rich foods in the … Wikipedia
