Word: compacter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...substance weighs about one ton. Physicists believe that ordinary atoms could not be compressed to such density, and they suppose that the tremendous pressures and high temperature of the White Dwarf have broken up its atoms, letting their space-hungry electrons escape and leaving only the much more compact atomic nuclei...
...future uses in the metal industries and in medicine are legion. The design includes some 180 sections, to provide constant accelerating steps of 12,000 volts each. The tube is completely sealed-off, like an ordinary radio tube, needs no pumping to maintain the high vacuum. It is compact, portable so that it can be used to in spect the insides of machinery installed anywhere. In therapeutic use its advantage is that of radium over ordinary X rays: its rays are so penetrating that they can destroy internal cancers without harmful effect on the skin and fleshy tissues...
Leathery, compact, of medium height, with a belligerent jaw and a mouth like a trap, Chesty Puller became the model of a professional fighting...
...reveal all its facts to the public, said Oilman Pew. The Senate will find, he said, that the agreement's purposes have been left "entirely in the dark." Worst purpose, from Pew's point of view: a federal regulatory agency which would wreck the U.S. Interstate Oil Compact...
...receiving-set supply problem has finally been licked. A compact plastic-sprayed set (all-wave, with considerable range) is so resistant to tropic damp that it can even be submerged under water for hours without damage. Other difficulties have been met with diesel powder, well-equipped studios...