| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object |
abience
|
| quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object |
abstractness
|
| reflex changes in the eyes that enable an object to be focused on the retina |
accommodation reflex
|
| (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases |
accretion
|
| noun that is direct object of verb or preposition |
accusative
|
| category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb |
accusative
,
accusative case
,
objective case
|
| quill- or needle-shaped object |
acicula
,
aculeus
|
| (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object |
adience
|
| action of directing something at an object |
aim
|
| surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles |
alidad
,
alidade
|
| angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) |
ALT
,
altitude
,
EL
,
elevation
|
| magic object |
amulet
,
charm
,
fetish
,
juju
,
rabbit's foot
,
relic
,
talisman
,
wishbone
|
| game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters |
anagrams
|
| metal object used to retain place |
anchor
|
| film that gives life to non-moving object |
animation
|
| spirit attributed to object in nature |
animism
|
| object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided |
antipathy
|
| very old object |
antique
|
| any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity |
antique
|
| optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object |
apparent motion
,
apparent movement
,
motion
,
movement
|
