te (adekwat)

[Formerly adæquate, adequate -at , adæquat us , pp. of adæquare , make equal, ad , to, + æquus , equal: see equal .] Equal to requirement or occasion; commen- surate: surate; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit: as, means adequate to the object; an adequate com- parison. I did for once see right, do right, give tongue The adequate protest. Browning, Ring and Book, II. 56. if once we could break through the silence into adequate In our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets, rhyme. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 305. Adequate cognition, in logic: (a) A cognition involving no notion which is not perfectly clear and distinct. (b) A cognition at once precise and complete. - Adequate definition or mark, in logic. See definition. = Syn. Ade Enough , commensurate, competent. A thing is adequate to something else when it con comes quite up to its level; yet neither may be sufficient when viewed in relation to some third thing. That which is suficient may be adequate and more. Enough equals adequate, but is applied to a different cla of subjects. Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a state that does not represent its ability as well as its property. Burke, Rev. in France. Lamb , Oxford. molested, and fancy myself of what degree or standing I ad extremum (ad eks-trē'mum). [L.: ad, to; extremum, acc. neut. sing. of extremus, last: see extreme.] To the extreme; at last; finally. adfected (ad-fek'ted), a. [L. adjectus, later affect us, pp. of adficere, later afficere, affect: see affect.] In alg., compounded; consisting of different powers of the unknown quantity.Adfected or affected equation, an equation in which the unknown quantity is found in two or more different degrees or powers: thus, 23 - px2 + qx = a is an adfected equation, as it contains three different powers of the un- known quantity z . adfiliate, adfiliation, etc. See affiliate , etc. ad finem (ad fi'nem). [L.: ad , to; finem , acc. of finis , end: see finis .] To or at the end. adfluxion (ad-fluk's hon), n. [Var. of affluxion , q. v.] A flow, as of sap, caused by a drawing, not a propelling, force. adglutinate (ad-glö'ti-nat), a. Same as agglu- tinate. ad gustum (ad gus'tum). [L.: ad, to; gustum , acc. of gust us , taste: see gust2 .] To the taste; to one's liking.