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- English Word Telegraphist Definition One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
- English Word Telegraphy Definition The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
- English Word Telemeter Definition An instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known.
- English Word Teleocephial Definition An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.
- English Word Teleological Definition Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
- English Word Teleologist Definition One versed in teleology.
- English Word Teleology Definition The doctrine of the final causes of things
- English Word Teleology Definition the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
- English Word Teleophore Definition Same as Gonotheca.
- English Word Teleorganic Definition Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
- English Word Teleosaur Definition Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae.
- English Word Teleosaurus Definition A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
- English Word Teleost Definition One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Teleostean Definition Of or pertaining to the teleosts.
- English Word Teleostean Definition A teleostean fish.
- English Word Teleostei Definition A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
- English Word Teleostomi Definition An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids.
- English Word Teleozoic Definition Having tissued composed of cells.
- English Word Teleozoon Definition A metazoan.
- English Word Telepathy Definition The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.