iddm
- n severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
idea
- n the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
it was not a good idea - n your intention; what you intend to do
the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces - n a personal view
he has an idea that we don't like him - n an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
a rough idea how long it would take - n (music) melodic subject of a musical composition
the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it
ideal gas
- n a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces
ideal solid
- n any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent
idealisation
- n (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- n something that exists only as an idea
- n a portrayal of something as ideal
identity matrix
- n a scalar matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are unity
ignominiousness
- n unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor
idealism
- n (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
- n impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
- n elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued
idealist
- n someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations
idealization
- n a portrayal of something as ideal
the idealization of rural life was very misleading - n (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- n something that exists only as an idea
identical twin
- n either of two twins developed from the same fertilized ovum (having the same genetic material)
identification
- n the act of designating or identifying something
- n evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
- n the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established
the thief's identification was followed quickly by his arrest
identification of the gun was an important clue - n the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
- n the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)