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mo·lar1    Audio Help   [moh-ler] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
–adjective
2.adapted for grinding, as teeth.
3.pertaining to such teeth.

[Origin: 1535–45; < L molāris grinder, short for (déns) molāris grinding (tooth), equiv. to mol(a) millstone + -āris -ar1]
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–adjective
Physics. pertaining to a body of matter as a whole, as contrasted with molecular and atomic.

[Origin: 1860–65; < L mōl(és) a mass + -ar1]
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–adjective Chemistry.
1.pertaining to a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution.
2.noting or pertaining to gram-molecular weight.

[Origin: 1860–65; mole4 + -ar1]
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mo·lar 1    Audio Help   (mō'lər)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Abbr. M Chemistry
    1. Relating to or designating a solution that contains one mole of solute per liter of solution.
    2. Containing one mole of a substance.
  2. Physics Of or relating to a body of matter as a whole, perceived apart from molecular or atomic properties.


[From mole5.]

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mo·lar 2    Audio Help   (mō'lər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A tooth with a broad crown used to grind food, located behind the premolars.

adj.  
  1. Of or relating to the molars.
  2. Capable of grinding.


[From Middle English molares, molars, from Latin molāris, belonging to a mill, grinder, molar, from mola, millstone; see melə- in Indo-European roots.]

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molar 
"grinding tooth," 1541, from L. molaris dens "grinding tooth," from mola "millstone," from PIE base *mel- "to rub, grind" (see mill (1)).

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molar

adjective
1. of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth; "molar teeth" 
2. designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution 
3. containing one mole of a substance; "molar weight" 
4. pertaining to large units of behavior; "such molar problems of personality as the ego functions"--R.R. Hunt [ant: molecular

noun
1. grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars 

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molar [ˈməulə] noun
a back tooth which is used for grinding food
Arabic: ضِرْس، طاحِنَه
Chinese (Simplified): 臼齿
Chinese (Traditional): 臼齒
Czech: stolička
Danish: kindtand
Dutch: kies
Estonian: purihammas
Finnish: poskihammas
French: molaire
German: der Backenzahn
Greek: τραπεζίτης (δόντι)
Hungarian: őrlőfog
Icelandic: jaxl
Indonesian: geraham
Italian: molare
Japanese: 臼歯
Korean: 어금니
Latvian: dzeroklis
Lithuanian: krūminis dantis
Norwegian: jeksel
Polish: (ząb) trzonowy
Portuguese (Brazil): molar
Portuguese (Portugal): molar
Romanian: molar
Russian: моляр, коренной зуб
Slovak: stolička
Slovenian: kočnik
Spanish: molar, muela
Swedish: oxeltand, kindtand
Turkish: azı dişi
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molar 1    Audio Help   (mō'lər)  Pronunciation Key 
Chemistry
  1. Relating to a mole.
  2. Containing one mole of solute per liter of solution.

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molar 2    Audio Help   (mō'lər)  Pronunciation Key 
Any of the teeth located toward the back of the jaws, having broad crowns for grinding food. Adult humans have 12 molars.

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Molar

Im"mo*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Immolating.] [L. immolatus, p. p. of immolare to sacrifice, orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground and mixed with salt; also, mill. See Molar, Meal ground grain.] To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.

Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. --Boyle.
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Molar

Meal\, n. [OE. mele, AS. melu, melo; akin to D. meel, G. mehl, OHG. melo, Icel. mj["o]l, SW. mj["o]l, Dan. meel, also to D. malen to grind, G. mahlen, OHG., OS., & Goth. malan, Icel. mala, W. malu, L. molere, Gr. my`lh mill, and E. mill. [root]108. Cf. Mill, Mold soil, Mole an animal, Immolate, Molar.]

1. Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

2. Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

Meal beetle (Zo["o]l.), the adult of the meal worm. See Meal worm, below.

Meal moth (Zo["o]l.), a lepidopterous insect (Asopia farinalis), the larv[ae] of which feed upon meal, flour, etc.

Meal worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a beetle (Tenebrio molitor) which infests granaries, bakehouses, etc., and is very injurious to flour and meal.
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Molar

Mo"lar\, a. [L. moles mass.] (Mech.) Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms. --Carpenter.
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