Tending to decay
1putrefy — v.i.,v.t. rot; decay; fester. ♦ putrefacient, putrefactive, a. pertaining to or causing putrefaction; n. such thing. ♦ putrefaction, n. ♦ putresce, v.i. & t. ♦ putrescent, a. decaying; tending to decay. ♦ putrescence, n. ♦… …
2caducous — a. 1. Tending to decay, decaying, declining, decadent, dropping, falling. 2. (Bot. and Zool.) Dropping off early, deciduous, non persistent, temporary, transient …
3Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
4Future of an expanding universe — Big Freeze redirects here. For other uses, see Big Freeze (disambiguation). Physical cosmology Univ …
5forestry — /fawr euh stree, for /, n. 1. the science of planting and taking care of trees and forests. 2. the process of establishing and managing forests; forestation. 3. forestland. [1685 95; < MF foresterie. See FOREST, RY] * * * Management of forested… …
6radiation — radiational, adj. /ray dee ay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. b. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and… …
71 E19 s and more — To help compare orders of magnitude of different times, this page lists times longer than 1019 seconds (317 billion years). See also Heat death of the universe .Some radioisotopes have extremely long half lives: *(1.4 ± 0.4) times; 1017 years… …
8Nuclear meltdown — Three of the reactors at Fukushima I overheated, causing core meltdowns. This was compounded by hydrogen gas explosions and the venting of contaminated steam which released large amounts of radioactive material into the air.[1] …
9Decline — De*cline , n. [F. d[ e]clin. See {Decline}, v. i.] 1. A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the …
10Characters of Half-Life — This is a list of characters in the Half Life series of games, which comprises Half Life, Half Life 2 and their respective expansion packs and episodes. Contents 1 Introduced in Half Life and expansion packs 1.1 Gordon Freeman 1.2 The G Man …
