Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
L. capsula, a little box or chest, fr. capsa, chest, case, fr. capere, to take, contain: cf. F. capsule,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Fr.,—L. capsula, dim. of capsa, a case—capĕre, to hold.
In literature:
After he had enjoyed his own humor, the geophysicist did present his capsule of knowledge with excellent brevity.
"Eight Keys to Eden" by Mark Irvin Clifton
A glass capsule with tightly fitting (ground on) glass lid, containing clean cover-slips in absolute alcohol.
"The Elements of Bacteriological Technique" by John William Henry Eyre
The solution is evaporated in a small porcelain capsule, placed on the hot embers.
"The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles" by Jean Henri Fabre
The newspaperman was handing Billings a cigar-shaped capsule half filled with a coarse white powder.
"El Diablo" by Brayton Norton
Next, someone thought of the capsules.
"Minor Detail" by John Michael Sharkey
The muscles then contract reflexly, and pull the head of the bone into an unnatural position outside the capsule.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition." by Alexander Miles
One capsule disappeared into a jeweled purse that hung on her hip.
"The Saracen: Land of the Infidel" by Robert Shea
Rachel clutched the leather capsule desperately, as if by holding it tightly enough she could keep Daoud alive.
"The Saracen: The Holy War" by Robert Shea
Some self-fertilized capsules of a Maxillaria were in a similar state.
"The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2)" by Charles Darwin
Two U-235 capsules rigged for slow implosion, sir.
"Equation of Doom" by Gerald Vance
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In poetry:
To say "a dose of Phillips, or
A capsule of Sinclair or Brady,
Is just the thing to make me snore?"
Oh, lackadaydee!
""Bedbooks"" by Franklin Pierce Adams
Something is gone.
My sleeping capsule, my red and blue zeppelin
Drops me from a terrible altitude.
Carapace smashed,
I spread to the beaks of birds.
"The Jailer" by Sylvia Plath
The words themselves are a delight to learn,
You might be in a foreign land of terms
Like samara, capsule, drupe, legume and pome,
Where bark is papery, plated, warty or smooth.
"Learning the Trees" by Howard Nemerov
Poet, whose words are like the tight-packed seed
Sealed in the capsule of a silver flower,
Still at your art we wonder as we read,
The art dynamic charging each word with power.
"To Ralph Waldo Emerson" by Richard Le Gallienne
In news:
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space capsule completes successful pad test.
Blue Origin's New Shepard crew capsule escaped to an altitude of 2,307 feet before deploying parachutes for a safe return Oct 19, 2012.
Private space capsule delivers precious cargo to space station.
A DIY spaceflight project needs your help with the design of a space-capsule hatch.
Dear Wired Reader, Are You a Space Capsule Hatch Designer.
I have been busy doing interesting interviews and sketching like a mad man on the new capsule.
Every space capsule needs an escape system.
Secondary Feed — live from capsule – split cam.
The Beautiful Betty space capsule is hauled to a boat for launch.
In 1 day and 14 hours we will launch our space capsule Tycho Deep Space.
With Orion space capsule , NASA plots return to space exploration.
NASA has unveied the brand new Orion space capsule , which is expected to have its first test launch in spring 2014.
Capsules may help boost the immune system.
Prasco Laboratories is releasing an authorized generic version of Vancocin Hydrochloride Capsules.
Here's my capsule view of the great financial meltdown of 2008: For the past couple of decades, the benefits of economic growth have gone almost entirely to the rich.
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In science:
The first capsule has been installed in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in October, 17th and is now taking data.
The BiPo detector for ultralow radioactivity measurements
The capsules are filled by pure nitrogen in order to suppress radon and thoron contamination.
The BiPo detector for ultralow radioactivity measurements
It is a 4 channel boards with an amplitude resolution of 12 bits, a time range of 2.5 µs, an amplitude range of 1 V and a sampling rate of 2 Gs/s. A first capsule has been installed in Canfranc Underground Laboratory in October, 17th shielded with only 10 cm of low activity lead and flushed with N2 gas.
The BiPo detector for ultralow radioactivity measurements
It has been reduced to about 0.1 Hz by adding only 1 cm of pure iron between the capsule and the lead, demonstrating that counting rate is dominated by bremsstrahlung from lead activity. A temporary acquisition with LECROY WAVERUNNER digital oscilloscope (2.5 GS/s and 8 bit amplitude resolution) has been used.
The BiPo detector for ultralow radioactivity measurements
In September 2007, 20 capsules will be fully running in the shielding test facility in Canfranc.
The BiPo detector for ultralow radioactivity measurements
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