perissad

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd”) + -ad.

Adjective

perissad (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) odd; not even; said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder.

   Antonym: artiad

Noun

perissad (plural perissads)

1. (chemistry) An atom of this kind.

   Antonym: artiad

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “perissad”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• despairs, ride pass, passerid, Pardesis