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- English Word Tachinae Definition of Tachina
- English Word Tachometer Definition An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance.
- English Word Tachometer Definition An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork.
- English Word Tachometer Definition An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial.
- English Word Tachometer Definition An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a haematachometer.
- English Word Tachydidaxy Definition A short or rapid method of instructing.
- English Word Tachyglossa Definition A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna.
- English Word Tachygraphic Definition Alt. of Tachygraphical
- English Word Tachygraphical Definition Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.
- English Word Tachygraphy Definition The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography.
- English Word Tachylyte Definition A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
- English Word Tacit Definition Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
- English Word Taciturn Definition Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
- English Word Taciturnity Definition Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking.
- English Word Tack Definition A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
- English Word Tack Definition A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- English Word Tack Definition Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
- English Word Tack Definition A stain; a tache.
- English Word Tack Definition The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
- English Word Tack Definition The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.