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Autodidacticism

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• Autodyne

  a type of heterodyne circuit containing a vacuum tube or transistor that acts simultaneously as a detector and oscillator. historical examples the connections for the autodyne, or self-heterodyne, receiving set are shown in fig. 60. the radio amateur’s hand book a. frederick collins from this you will see that any regenerative set can be used […]

• Autogamy

  botany. pollination of the ovules of a flower by its own pollen; self-fertilization (opposed to ). biology. conjugation in an individual organism by division of its nucleus into two parts that in turn reunite to form a zygote. historical examples meiosis in rhynchonympha in one cytoplasmic and two nuclear divisions followed by autogamy. the biotic […]

• Autogiro

  an aircraft with an unpowered, horizontally rotating propeller on a shaft above the fuselage that provides lift for the machine, with forward propulsion being provided by a conventional propeller: superseded in most applications by the helicopter. historical examples climbing out of the autogiro they walked towards the center of the island where the sand was […]

• Autograft

  a tissue or organ that is into a new position on the body of the individual from which it was removed. noun (surgery) a tissue graft obtained from one part of a patient’s body for use on another part autograft au·to·graft (ô’tō-grāft’) n. a tissue or an organ grafted into a new position in or […]

• Autohypnosis

  self-induced or hypnotic state. historical examples some people call this process the autohypnosis of the great. h. r. edwin lefevre the part that hypnosis and autohypnosis, conscious and unconscious, has played here cannot easily be overestimated. encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 8, slice 2 various noun (psychol) the process or result of self-induced hypnosis

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