These are the meanings of the letters PERFUNCTORIA when you unscramble them.
- Precaution (n.)
A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident.
- Precaution (n.)
Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution.
- Precaution (v. t.)
To take precaution against.
- Precaution (v. t.)
To warn or caution beforehand.
- Refraction (n.)
The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
- Refraction (n.)
The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction.
- Refraction (n.)
The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
- Refraction (n.)
The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.