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Words related to functioning

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  • intermittent

    stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.

  • dark adaptation

    the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.

  • gerund

    (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).

  • hemolymph

    a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.

  • light adaptation

    the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).

  • nominal

    being such in name only; so-called; putative: a nominal treaty; the nominal head of the country.
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