cataract
Kelime Anlamı :
1. katarakt.
2. buyük çağlayan.
3. sel.
4. çağlayan.
5. akbasma.
6. şelâle.
7. çağlayan/katarakt.
8. perde.
9. şelale, büyük çağlayan, çavlan.
10. Göz perdesi, lensin saydamlığının kaybolması, katarakt.
Tanımlar :
1.
A large or high waterfall.
2. A great downpour; a deluge.
3. pathology opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye, causing impairment of vision or blindness.
2. A great downpour; a deluge.
3. pathology opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye, causing impairment of vision or blindness.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
A waterspout
2. A large waterfall; steep rapids in a river.
3. A flood of water
4. an overwhelming downpour or rush
5. A disease of the eye causing its opacity and, unless treated, leading to blindness.
2. A large waterfall; steep rapids in a river.
3. A flood of water
4. an overwhelming downpour or rush
5. A disease of the eye causing its opacity and, unless treated, leading to blindness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
2. an opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.
3. A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
2. an opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.
3. A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
to form cataracts.
2. to pour, like a cataract.
3. A descent of water over a steeply sloping but not perpendicular surface, as the cataracts of the nile and the Orinoco; hence, especially in poetical use, any large waterfall, as that of the niagara.
4. any furious rush or downpour of water.
5. A disease of the eye, characterized by opacity of the lens.
6. in fortification, a herse.
7. A regulator for single-acting steam-engines, invented by Smeaton.
8. the plungeon, a kind of cormorant: so called because of its violent downward flight in seizing its prey.
9. in mech., a device for regulating the number of strokes per minute in a cornish pumping-engine, in which the velocity of a falling weight, or a spring-weighted piston, is governed by the flow of water through a variable opening, whose cross-section can be controlled at will, so that the period of the stroke or the interval between strokes can be made longer or shorter.
2. to pour, like a cataract.
3. A descent of water over a steeply sloping but not perpendicular surface, as the cataracts of the nile and the Orinoco; hence, especially in poetical use, any large waterfall, as that of the niagara.
4. any furious rush or downpour of water.
5. A disease of the eye, characterized by opacity of the lens.
6. in fortification, a herse.
7. A regulator for single-acting steam-engines, invented by Smeaton.
8. the plungeon, a kind of cormorant: so called because of its violent downward flight in seizing its prey.
9. in mech., a device for regulating the number of strokes per minute in a cornish pumping-engine, in which the velocity of a falling weight, or a spring-weighted piston, is governed by the flow of water through a variable opening, whose cross-section can be controlled at will, so that the period of the stroke or the interval between strokes can be made longer or shorter.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia