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<cs><col>Dialytic telescope</col>, <cd>an achromatic telescope in which the colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dialyzate</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di*al"y*zate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The material subjected to dialysis.</def>

<h1>Dialyzation</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*ly*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The act or process of dialysis.</def>

<h1>Dialyze</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di"a*lyze</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dialyzed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dialyzing</er>.]</wordforms> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>dialyse</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Dialyzed</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di"a*lyzed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; <as>as, <ex>dialyzed</ex> iron</as>.</def>

<h1>Dialyzer</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di"a*ly`zer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis.</def>

<h1>Diamagnet</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*mag"net</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dia-</ets> + <ets>magnet</ets>.]</ety> <def>A body having diamagnetic polarity.</def>

<h1>Diamagnetic</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*mag*net"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See <er>Paramagnetic</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Diamagnetic attraction</col>. <cd>See under <er>Attraction</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Diamagnetic</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*mag*net"ic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet.</def>

<h1>Diamagnetically</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*mag*net"ic*al*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism.</def>

<h1>Diamagnetism</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*mag"net*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The science which treats of diamagnetic phenomena, and of the properties of diamagnetic bodies.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That form or condition of magnetic action which characterizes diamagnetics.</def>

<h1>Diamantiferous</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*man*tif"er*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>diamant</ets> diamond + <ets>-ferous</ets>.]</ety> <def>Yielding diamonds.</def>

<h1>Diamantine</h1> <Xpage=406>

<hw>Di`a*man"tine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Adamantine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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