What is "megohm"

Broomstick \Broom"stick`\, n. A stick used as a handle of a broom.

Insultation \In`sul*ta"tion\, n. [L. insultatio, fr. insultare: cf. OF. insultation.]

1. The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. [Obs.]
   --Feltham.

2. Exultation. [Obs.]
   --Is. xiv. (heading).

Ozonize \O"zo*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ozonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Ozonizing.] (Chem.)

1. To convert into ozone, as oxygen.

2. To treat with ozone.

Moral \Mor"al\, a. [F., fr. It. moralis, fr. mos, moris, manner, custom, habit, way of life, conduct.]

1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.

   Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue.
   --Hooker.

   Mankind is broken loose from moral bands.
   --Dryden.

   She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
   --Hawthorne.

2. Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.

   The wiser and more moral part of mankind.
   --Sir M. Hale.

3. Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.

   A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense.
   --J. Edwards.

4. Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.

5. Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.

6. Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.

   Moral agent, a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong.

   Moral certainty, a very high degree or probability, although not demonstrable as a certainty; a probability of so high a degree that it can be confidently acted upon in the affairs of life; as, there is a moral certainty of his guilt.

   Moral insanity, insanity, so called, of the moral system; badness alleged to be irresponsible.

   Moral philosophy, the science of duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral being, of the duties which result from his moral relations, and the reasons on which they are founded.

   Moral play, an allegorical play; a morality. [Obs.]

   Moral sense, the power of moral judgment and feeling; the capacity to perceive what is right or wrong in moral conduct, and to approve or disapprove, independently of education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law.

   Moral theology, theology applied to morals; practical theology; casuistry.

Theology \The*ol"o*gy\, n.; pl. Theologies. [L. theologia, Gr. ?; ? God + ? discourse: cf. F. th['e]ologie. See Theism, and Logic.] The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) ``the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life.''

Many speak of theology as a science of religion [instead of ``science of God''] because they disbelieve that there is any knowledge of God to be attained.
--Prof. R. Flint (Enc. Brit.).

Theology is ordered knowledge; representing in the region of the intellect what religion represents in the heart and life of man.
--Gladstone.

Ascetic theology, Natural theology. See Ascetic, Natural.

Moral theology, that phase of theology which is concerned with moral character and conduct.

Revealed theology, theology which is to be learned only from revelation.

Scholastic theology, theology as taught by the scholastics, or as prosecuted after their principles and methods.

Speculative theology, theology as founded upon, or influenced by, speculation or metaphysical philosophy.

Systematic theology, that branch of theology of which the aim is to reduce all revealed truth to a series of statements that together shall constitute an organized whole.
--E. G. Robinson (Johnson's Cyc.).

Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. Gloaming.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day.
--Trench.

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.
--Tennyson.

Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]

1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

   The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
   --Goldsmith.

   [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
   --Spenser.

Megohm \Meg"ohm"\, n. [Mega- + ohm.] (Elec.) One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.

vb. (context idiomatic English) To speak the truth; to say things as they really are.

n. (plural of tun English)

adv. With a thwacking sound.

n. 1 the handle of a broom - a tool used to sweep the floor 2 ''(witchcraft)'' A broom, imbued with magic enabling one to fly riding the handle.

n. A clock mounted on a wall.

n. A particular anticholinergic used as a mydriatic to permit better examination of the eye.

a. Of or pertaining to a provirus

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To defecate 2 (context intransitive English) To quit due to tiredness

n. incorrect form; quality of being malformed

n. 1 A perceived superiority based on nationality or ethnicity. 2 The belief that a particular nation is inherently superior to others.

vb. (present participle of overgaze English)

n. (alternative spelling of janggi English)

vb. (en-third-person singularpeter out)

n. (context slang English) A drunkard.

vb. (en-past of: scope out)

alt. 1 (context British English) The cuff on a trouser leg that is, or can be turned up. 2 The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed. n. 1 (context British English) The cuff on a trouser leg that is, or can be turned up. 2 The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.

n. 1 The act or process of putting in; infusion. 2 That which is put in, as in an amount. 3 contribution, or share in a contribution. 4 Something fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the outputs of that process. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To put in; put on. 2 (context transitive English) To enter#Verb dat

1. 3 (context transitive English) To accept data that is entered.

n. (plural of pudwhacker English)

n. The act or process of eroticize.

n. 1 (context obsolete English) The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. 2 (context obsolete English) exultation

n. A form of therapeutic intervention, used mainly with autistic children, in which the therapist meets the child at its current developmental level and entices it to move up a hierarchy of developmental milestones.

vb. (present participle of ozonize English)

n. (context obsolete English) skeleton

adv. In a manner that corrodes.

vb. (context idiomatic English) To struggle to think of or remember something.

n. spontaneous convection in a fluid layer

vb. 1 to search, to look for 2 to track down, to find by searching

n. (plural of cipherer English)

vb. (context idiomatic 1811 English) said of one who is knock-kneed, or who beats his sides to keep himself warm in frosty weather.

vb. (en-third-person singulartrench-plow)

vb. (en-third-person singular of: put out)

n. 1 (plural of merit English) 2 intrinsic advantages, as opposed to political or procedural advantages. 3 (context legal English) Substance, distinguished from form or procedure. vb. (en-third-person singular of: merit)

n. (plural of line out English)

interj. (context slang English) goodbye

a. Relating to hemosiderin / haemosiderin alt. Relating to hemosiderin / haemosiderin

Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2

n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming

a. Afflicted with halitosis.

n. (alternative spelling of megaohm English)

n. the handle of a broom [syn: broom handle]

n. a clock mounted on a wall

v. use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out" [syn: peter out, run down, run out, conk out]

n. (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place [syn: mooring]

n. the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg [syn: cuff]

1. n. signal going into an electronic system [syn: input signal]

2. any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action [syn: stimulation, stimulus, stimulant]

v. enter (data or a program) into a computer

adj. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn: gloomy, gloomful]

n. a unit of resistance equal to one million ohms