banana

en-noun

banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)

Borrowed from Portuguese banana or Spanish banana, derived from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Specific derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese banana.
The racial slur derives from the notion that they are "Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, White (Westernized) on the inside".

banánový (corresponding to English attributive use)

(corresponding to English attributive use) banánový

An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

(Canada, US, UK, Ireland) In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.

banana equivalent dose
banana equivalent dose

(nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.

(computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).


banana

Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.

2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, →ISBN, page 155:

He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.

2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, →ISBN, page 53:

[...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.

2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, →ISBN, page 247:

Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.


potassium

potassium (usually uncountable, plural potassiums)

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1807, from potassa + -ium, from Dutch potasch (“potash”).

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potassium magnesium chloride hexahydrate

A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin kalium.


alum

From alumnus and alumna (> alumn- > alum), by the removal of the originally Latin gender-specific nominative singular case endings -us (masculine) and -a (feminine).

1961 Spring, Anchora of Delta Gamma, Volume LXXVII, No. 3, page 59,
Evanston-North Shore alums are happy to open their homes to Sigma actives for special social events.

You'll remember that we're starting with a list of slightly over 7,000 names that are alums (most of them over 50) that we'd like to whittle down to a manageable list of prospects.

2006, Ted Hart, James M. Greenfield, Pamela M. Gignac, Christopher Carnie, Major Donors: Finding Big Gifts in Your Database and Online, page 47:

All schools that last have alums, and, ancient as it was by American standards, Trinity by mid-century had thousands.

2009, Timothy C. Jacobson, Charity & Merit: Trinity School at 300, page 190:

(shortening, Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of any gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.

alumna

the original Latin gender-specific loanword


lye

en-noun

lye (countable and uncountable, plural lyes)

From Middle English leye, lye, from Old English lēah, lēag (“lye”), from Proto-West Germanic *laugu, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Loge, Looie (“lye”), Dutch loog (“lye”), German Low German Loge, Loje, Loog (“lye”), German Lauge (“lye”).

An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).

She had not left the lye in too long so that the hair would fall out in clumps later.

2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 372:

Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).


lye

Variant of lie (“to rest horizontally”) now used in a specialised sense; compare sett.

Brakevan lye. [same page in the main text] There is also an inclined lye for brakevans at each end of the yard.

1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II: The new Perth marshalling yard”, in Modern Railways, page 273, photo caption with indicating arrow:

(UK, rail transport) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.


cyanide

cyanide (countable and uncountable, plural cyanides)

(inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, countable) Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN⁻ anion.

цыяні́д

chemistry: any compound containing the CN group


cream of tartar

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potassium bitartrate
potassium bitartrate

(organic chemistry) Potassium hydrogen tartrate (also called potassium bitartrate), a byproduct of wine manufacture, used in baking powder and in cooking to stabilize beaten egg whites.


potash

potash (countable and uncountable, plural potashes)

→ Irish: potais

Calque of Dutch potas, coined in 1598, equivalent to pot + ash. The literal translation is “pot ash”, because it was made by burning wood to ashes in a large pot. First attested in 1648. Doublet of potassium and potassa.

Coordinate term: fly ash

The water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer.

قِلْو

pot ash: the water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer

(chemistry) An impure form of potassium carbonate (K₂CO₃) mixed with other potassium salts.

قِلْو

chemistry: an impure form of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) mixed with other potassium salts

permanganate of potash ― potassium permanganate

(chemistry, archaic) Potassium. Chiefly used in the names of compounds of the form "... of potash".

A class of potassium minerals, of similar applicability to potassium carbonate, such as being a fertilizer. (ie. potassium chloride, potassium hydroxide)


potassa

Borrowed from Dutch potasch (“potash”). Doublet of potash.

(obsolete) The chemical compound potassium hydroxide.


potass

The carbonate and bi-carbonate of potass are both decomposed by lime.

1825, John Ayrton Paris, The Elements of Medical Chemistry, page 431:


hyperkalemia

hyperkalemia (countable and uncountable, plural hyperkalemias)

From hyper- + kalemia or hyper- + kal(ium) + -emia.

(biology, medicine) The condition of having an abnormally high concentration of potassium ions in the blood (above the reference range).

hyperkalemie

the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of potassium ions in the blood


(physics) An artificially produced radioactive isotope of potassium, ⁴²₁₉K, having a half-life of 12.4 hours; used in medicine as a tracer


(physics) An artificially produced radioactive isotope of potassium, ⁴³₁₉K, having a half-life of 22 hours; used in medicine as a tracer


(physics) A naturally-occurring radioactive isotope of potassium, ⁴⁰₁₉K, having nineteen protons and twenty-one neutrons, and a half-life of 1.3 billion years; it is the chief source of natural radioactivity in living tissue


potassium feldspar

potassium feldspar (plural potassium feldspars)

potassium aluminium silicate
potassium aluminium silicate

(mineralogy) Any of several alkaline feldspars containing potassium aluminium silicate, KAlSi₃O₈


potash alum

alum, hydrated potassium aluminium sulphate, formula K₂SO₄.Al₂(SO₄)₃.24H₂O


(physics) The major stable isotope of potassium, ³⁹₁₉K, having nineteen protons and twenty neutrons; it amounts to over 93% of the element in nature


potassium hydroxide

The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured.

1885, American Journal of Science, 3rd Series, Volume 30, page 57:

(inorganic chemistry) The alkaline base KOH, once known as caustic potash; it has a number of industrial uses, including the manufacture of bleach.


hypokalemia

hypokalemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypokalemias)

From hypo- + kalemia or hypo- + kal(ium) + -emia.

(biology, medicine) The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood (below the reference range).


dipotassium

(inorganic chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of potassium in a compound


potassium bitartrate

potassium bitartrate (plural potassium bitartrates)


normokalemia

From normo- + kalemia or normo- + kal(ium) + -emia.

The state of having a normal concentration of potassium in one's blood.


kalemia

Patients with renal insufficiency following trauma present special problems in management because clinical uremia, high levels of azotemia and kalemia, and myocardial potassium intoxication develop rapidly.

1955 February 4, Lloyd H. Smith, Jr., “Post-traumatic Renal Insufficiency in Military Casualties”, in The American Journal of Medicine, volume 18, number 2, II. Management, Use of an Artificial Kidney, Prognosis, page 187:

One of the criteria of efficiency is the reversal of these potassium movements, with decrease of kalemia and increase of the intra-cellular cation, expressing a recovery of ATPase activity.

1982, Veterinary and Human Toxicology, page 67:

Various factors influence the effects of hyper and hypokalemia on the heart: the rate of the change in kalemia levels, the plasmatic concentration of remaining ions which contribute to the cell Em, and the simultaneous use of drugs.

2012, C. Ronco, Critical Care Nephrology:

(physiology, especially in combination) The presence of potassium in the blood, and (usually, especially) the degree (that is, its concentration).

natremia

types of biometallic cation concentration in blood


organopotassium

(organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to potassium bond.


potassiferous

en-adj

potassiferous (comparative more potassiferous, superlative most potassiferous)

more potassiferous (comparative)
most potassiferous (superlative)


argol

Perhaps related to ἀργός (argós, “bright, shining”).


BED

banana equivalent dose
banana equivalent dose#English


banana equivalent dose

en-noun

banana equivalent dose (plural banana equivalent doses)

(biology) The radiation dose equivalent of consuming an average banana, equal to 0.01 mrem or 0.1 μSv.


potash-feldspar

(obsolete, mineralogy) potassium feldspar


potassium aluminium silicate

potassium aluminium silicate (uncountable)


caustic alkali

caustic alkali (countable and uncountable, plural caustic alkalis)

(inorganic chemistry, dated) The hydrate of potassium (called caustic potash) or sodium (caustic soda).


dyskalemia

From dys- + kalemia or dys- + kal(ium) + -emia.

(biology, medicine) A unhealthy concentration of potassium in the blood.


eukalemia

From eu- + kalemia or eu- + kal(ium) + -emia.

(biology, medicine) Synonym of normokalemia


kalemic

Hypokalemia and hyperkalemia, are common electrolyte electrolyte diseases related to changes in potassium intake, excretion, or transcellular shifts. Hypokalemia is commonly induced by diuretics and gastrointestinal losses, whereas hyperkalemia is typically caused by kidney disease, hyperglycemia, and pharmaceutical use. The aetiology of kalemia can range from minor to severe, and it can be caused by diet, drugs, or another disease. […] This review gives an insight into the causes, symptoms, complications as well as pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments of kalemic conditions in pregnancy. This review also reported some cases of hypo and hyperkalemia in pregnancy in both human and animals.

2022, Athira Roy, Nissy P. Jacob, A.R. Vaishnavi, M. Sudha, R. Sambath Kumar, “Review on kalemic conditions in pregnancy”, in Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics, volume 12, number 1-S, →DOI:

(biology, medicine) Of or pertaining to kalemia: (usually, especially) regarding trends of potassium (K) concentration over time.

natremic

biometallic cation concentration in blood


potassium fluoride

(inorganic chemistry) A fluoride salt of potassium with the chemical formula KF.