acribic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
(chemistry) (of a chemical name) systematic
Example Sentences
- "The plan of each card is as follows: … 5. An acribic description of the discovered objects with measurements in mm. and cm., and references to the illustrations."
- "The most acribic pantographic or computer-aided bite registration procedures of tooth-guided border movements do not necessarily result in a satisfactory occlusion."
- "Furthermore, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommended that chemists should stop using imprecise terms such as systematic and trivial. It was suggested that they be replaced by the more precise terms acribic and anacribic, but these terms have never taken hold."
- "Doubtless finding it troublesome to name their product from scratch, they hijacked the RTM and came up with 'Texanol benzyl phthalate'. ... More legitimate and altogether more 'acribic' would have been benzyl 3-isobutyryloxy-1-isopropyl-2 2-dimethylpropyl phthalate."
Etymology
From German akribisch (“meticulous”) or its etymon Ancient Greek ἀκριβής (akribḗs, “exact, accurate, precise”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: akribisch, ἀκριβής
Inflected Forms
more acribic (comparative)
most acribic (superlative)