terminal velocity

In the theory of projectiles, the greatest velocity which a body can acquire by falling freely through the air, the limit being arrived at when the increase of the atmospheric 4038 bark of T. alata is astringent and antifebrile. The wood of T. to mentos a , when polished, resembles walnut, and has been used in India for making steth- oscopes. *ter-min-ant, s. [Latin term in ans , pr. par. of termino to terminate (q. v.).) Termination, end- ing. "Neither of both are of like term in ant ." -Putten ham: English Poesy , bk. ii., ch. ix. ter-min-āte, v . t . & i . [Lat. term in at us , pa. par. of termino to bound, to limit, to terminate; ter- minus a bound Sp. & Port. terminar ; Ital. term in are .] A. Transitive : a term (q. v.); Fr.terminer; 1. To bound, to limit; to set a boundary or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of. "Bed of all various herbs, for ever green, In beauteous order terminate the scene." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, vii. 168. 2. To end; to put an end to; to finish, to close. "Oaths terminate , as Paul observes, all strife Some men have surely then a peaceful life!" Cowper : Conversation , 55. *3. To complete, to perfect. *4. To limit, to confine. "There is a double consent to a proposition the first is directly terminated upon the honesty or dishonesty of the object."-Bp. Taylor: Rule of Conscience, bk. i., ch. iv. IMG:content-0924.png:[blocks in formation] Math .: An integer, a mixed number, or a vulgar termite *ter-mine, *ter-myne, v . t . [Latin termino =to terminate (q. v.); Fr. terminer.] 1. To fix, to limit. "Eftsoone he termyneth [Lat. term in at] sum dai."- Ebrewis iv. 2. To terminate, to limit, to confine. "How absurd had these guests been, if they had ter mined the thanks in the servitors." -Bp . Hall : Contempt.; Five Loaves .