Apocalypticism
any doctrine concerning the end of the temporal world, especially one based on the supposed prophetic p-ssages in the revelation of st. john the divine.
the millennial doctrine of the second advent and personal reign of jesus christ on earth.
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a female element of a flower having separate carpels. noun an apocarpous gynoecium or fruit
- Apocarpous
having the carpels separate. historical examples apocarpous (pistils), when the several pistils of the same flower are separate. the elements of botany asa gray the pistil is apocarpous, consisting of several distinct carpels, each with ovary, style and stigma. encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 10, slice 5 various adjective (of the ovaries of flowering plants […]
- Apocenter
the point in the orbit of a heavenly body farthest from a primary other than the earth or the sun.
- Apochromat
noun a lens, consisting of three or more elements of different types of gl-ss, that is designed to bring light of three colours to the same focal point, thus reducing its chromatic aberration compare achromat
- Apochromatic
corrected for spherical aberration at two wavelengths or colors and for at three wavelengths. adjective (of a lens) almost free from spherical and chromatic aberration