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Definition: ORTHO- |
ORTHO-1. Connection with, or affinity to, one variety of isomerism, characteristic of the benzene compounds; -- contrasted with meta- or para-; as, the ortho position; hence, designating any substance showing such isomerism; as, an ortho compound. 2. The one of several acids of the same element (as the phosphoric acids), which actually occurs with the greatest number of hydroxyl groups; as, orthophosphoric acid. Cf. Normal. 3. A combining form (also used adjectively) 4. A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A combining form meaning straight; at right angles; proper b. In petrology, a prefix that, when used with the name of a metamorphic rock, indicates that it was derived from an igneous rock, e.g., orthogneiss, orthoamphibolite; it may also indicate the primary origin of a crystalline, sedimentary rock, e.g., orthoquartzite as distinguished from metaquartzite c. A prefix to the name of a mineral species or group to indicate orthorhombic symmetry as opposed to "clino" indicating monoclinicsymmetry. e.g., orthogneiss, orthoamphibolite; it may also indicate the primary origin of a crystalline, sedimentary rock, e.g., orthoquartzite as distinguished from metaquartzite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ORTHO- |
| English words defined with "ORTHO-": Met- ♦ Para-. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ORTHO-": Nitrophenylgalactosides. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ORTHO-": Orthopoda. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ORTHO-" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (ortho-). |
| Language | Translations for "ORTHO-"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | orto-, drejt-. (various references) | |
Arabic | مستقيم بادئة. (various references) | |
French | ortho-, orth-. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortho-ay.(various references) | |
Russian | орфо-, орто-. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | orto-, uspravan (erect, plumb, stand up, straight, upright, upstanding, vertical), pravo-, pravi (genuine, plumb, proper, pucka, pukka, real, sheer, simon-pure, stark, sterling, thorough, true). (various references) | |
Spanish | orto-. (various references) | |
Swedish | orto-. (various references) | |
Turkish | orto, doğru (above board, according to cocker, according to hoyle, accurate, aright, authentic, cheese, correct, direct, due, exact, exactly, fair, fair enough, faithful, for, guileless, honest, honest injun, just, on time, orthodox, precisely, prompt, proper, punctual, quite so, right, righteous, sincere, spot-on, Square, straight, straight as a die, straight line, the right, the thing, the truth, thro, through, thru, true, truthful, up to, upstanding). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | орто-. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "ORTHO-" (pronounced 'Or"tho-'): Xantho-. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ortho, thoro. | |
| Words within the letters "h-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: hoot, root, roto, thro, toro. | |
-2 letters: hot, oho, ooh, oot, ort, rho, rot, tho, too, tor. | |
-3 letters: ho, oh, or, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: cohort, hooter, hotrod, thoron, toroth. | |
+2 letters: agoroth, cheroot, cohorts, hooters, hootier, hornito, hotrods, overhot, reshoot, sheroot, shooter, soother, theorbo, thorons, torchon. | |
+3 letters: bathroom, boxthorn, cheroots, coauthor, dropshot, forsooth, haftorot, hardboot, homeport, honewort, hoopster, hornitos, hornpout, hornwort, lothario, orthicon, orthodox, orthoepy, orthoses, orthosis, orthotic, outhomer, outhumor, outthrob, outthrow, overshot, poortith, porthole, reshoots, resmooth, roothold, scrootch, sheroots, shofroth, shooters, smoother, soothers, southron, tarboosh, theorbos, theropod, thorough, toothier, torchons, trochoid, yoghourt. | |
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