Jim Hart
February 8th, 2015, 04:31 PM
There was a time when astronomers lacked computers, calculators, slide
rules and even logarithms, but they did have accurate tables of sines
and cosines (which I'm sure you all recall from school) and someone had
deduced that instead of performing long multiplication it was quicker
and simpler to add and subtract angles. They called it prosthaphaeresis
and it must have been a great leap forward at the time but before long
John Napier's logarithms were the next big thing. And so it goes.
Some clever folk here recognised that the etymology of this word
referred to both adding and taking away, or addition and subtraction if
you will. Two of you thought that multiplication could be the answer.
Which it was, giving me a D2 for #15.
Six of you liked Judy's missing sounds (def 11) so she becomes the next
dealer. Paul Keating's similar definition (17) was close behind with 5
votes but one of them was, if you will pardon the expression, a selfie
so he only scores 4. The real winner is Efrem who got 5 votes for his
two-part chemistry.
1. ball lightning
from Keith Hale: voted 11 & 17 - score = 1
2. [Med.] stammering.
from Tim Lodge: voted 11 & 18 - score = 1
3. the digestive process of helminths.
from Nancy Shepherdson: voted 6 & 19 - score = 2
4. an artificial fingernail or toenail.
from Dodi Schultz: voted 9 & 18 - score = 0
5. The process of adapting to an artificial limb.
from Tony Abell: n.v. - score = 1
6. constant uncontrollable shivering or twitching.
from Guerri Stevens: voted 16 & 18 - score = 1
7. an irregular wave shape of alternating current.
from Steve Graham: voted 8 & 9 - score = 0
8. loss of muscle tone due to limited use of artificial limbs.
from Tim Bourne: voted 5 & 11 - score = 1
9. (Med.) the use of chemical allotropes to control prosthetic devices.
from Dave Cunningham: voted 3 & 18 - score = 2
19. Differentiation and growth of tissues and organs during development.
from Chris Carson: voted 2 & 11 - score = 2
10. a form of electric shock treatment used in the early twentieth century
from Dick Weltz: voted 1 & 12 - score = 0
11. any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or
phrases.
from Judy Madnick: voted 3 & 16 - score = 6!!!!!!
12. a method of activating artificial limbs by amplification of nerve
impulses at the attachment point.
from Mike Shefler: voted 13 & 17 - score = 1
13. [Med. Obs.] the staggering gait of a person with a wooden leg [Gk.
_prosthen_ forward + _aphaeresein_ to take away]
from JohnnyB: voted 15 & 18 - score = 2 + 2* = 4
14. (Biol.) The (hypothetical) influence of a previous sire seen in the
progeny of a subsequent sire from the same mother.
from Shani Naylor: voted 11 & 17 - score = 0
15. an algorithm used in the late 16th and early 17th century for
approximate multiplication and division using formulas from trigonometry
from The Free Dictionary: n.v. - score = D2
16. (Acoustics) burning a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, within a
tube adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound.
from Daniel Widdis: voted 13 & 15 - score = 2 + 2* = 4
17. The loss or omission of an initial letter [fm Gk _a-phairesis_
'bearing away, amputation', by analogy with _prosthesis_ 'addition of
an initial letter or syllable']
from Paul Keating: voted 11 & 17 - score = 4
18. [also prosthapharesis, esp. in Am. Eng.] 1. a chemical reaction in
which one chemical may be substituted for that originally used without
affecting the outcome. 2. The chemical so substituted.
from Efrem Mallach: voted 17 & 19 - score = 5
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rules and even logarithms, but they did have accurate tables of sines
and cosines (which I'm sure you all recall from school) and someone had
deduced that instead of performing long multiplication it was quicker
and simpler to add and subtract angles. They called it prosthaphaeresis
and it must have been a great leap forward at the time but before long
John Napier's logarithms were the next big thing. And so it goes.
Some clever folk here recognised that the etymology of this word
referred to both adding and taking away, or addition and subtraction if
you will. Two of you thought that multiplication could be the answer.
Which it was, giving me a D2 for #15.
Six of you liked Judy's missing sounds (def 11) so she becomes the next
dealer. Paul Keating's similar definition (17) was close behind with 5
votes but one of them was, if you will pardon the expression, a selfie
so he only scores 4. The real winner is Efrem who got 5 votes for his
two-part chemistry.
1. ball lightning
from Keith Hale: voted 11 & 17 - score = 1
2. [Med.] stammering.
from Tim Lodge: voted 11 & 18 - score = 1
3. the digestive process of helminths.
from Nancy Shepherdson: voted 6 & 19 - score = 2
4. an artificial fingernail or toenail.
from Dodi Schultz: voted 9 & 18 - score = 0
5. The process of adapting to an artificial limb.
from Tony Abell: n.v. - score = 1
6. constant uncontrollable shivering or twitching.
from Guerri Stevens: voted 16 & 18 - score = 1
7. an irregular wave shape of alternating current.
from Steve Graham: voted 8 & 9 - score = 0
8. loss of muscle tone due to limited use of artificial limbs.
from Tim Bourne: voted 5 & 11 - score = 1
9. (Med.) the use of chemical allotropes to control prosthetic devices.
from Dave Cunningham: voted 3 & 18 - score = 2
19. Differentiation and growth of tissues and organs during development.
from Chris Carson: voted 2 & 11 - score = 2
10. a form of electric shock treatment used in the early twentieth century
from Dick Weltz: voted 1 & 12 - score = 0
11. any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or
phrases.
from Judy Madnick: voted 3 & 16 - score = 6!!!!!!
12. a method of activating artificial limbs by amplification of nerve
impulses at the attachment point.
from Mike Shefler: voted 13 & 17 - score = 1
13. [Med. Obs.] the staggering gait of a person with a wooden leg [Gk.
_prosthen_ forward + _aphaeresein_ to take away]
from JohnnyB: voted 15 & 18 - score = 2 + 2* = 4
14. (Biol.) The (hypothetical) influence of a previous sire seen in the
progeny of a subsequent sire from the same mother.
from Shani Naylor: voted 11 & 17 - score = 0
15. an algorithm used in the late 16th and early 17th century for
approximate multiplication and division using formulas from trigonometry
from The Free Dictionary: n.v. - score = D2
16. (Acoustics) burning a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, within a
tube adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound.
from Daniel Widdis: voted 13 & 15 - score = 2 + 2* = 4
17. The loss or omission of an initial letter [fm Gk _a-phairesis_
'bearing away, amputation', by analogy with _prosthesis_ 'addition of
an initial letter or syllable']
from Paul Keating: voted 11 & 17 - score = 4
18. [also prosthapharesis, esp. in Am. Eng.] 1. a chemical reaction in
which one chemical may be substituted for that originally used without
affecting the outcome. 2. The chemical so substituted.
from Efrem Mallach: voted 17 & 19 - score = 5
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