These are the meanings of the letters CONTRIBUIDA when you unscramble them.
- Abduction (n.)
A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.
- Abduction (n.)
The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
- Abduction (n.)
The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
- Abduction (n.)
The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.
- Incubator (n.)
That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.
- Indicator (n.)
A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part
- Indicator (n.)
A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc.
- Indicator (n.)
An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below).
- Indicator (n.)
Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. See Honey guide, under Honey.
- Indicator (n.)
One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.
- Indicator (n.)
That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis.
- Indicator (n.)
The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer.