English Words: V
7,391 words · Page 136 of 148
A passage located behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre used as an exit for the crowds
The entrance into a theater or other large public venue, where masses of people are disgorged into the stands; a vomitorium
A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
An experimentally determined scientific law stating that the vapor pressure of a solution decreases according to the concentration of solute.
Four rules to explain the observed pattern of embryonic development in different species: (i) The more general characters of a large group appear earlier in the embryo than the more special characters. (ii) From the most general forms the less general are developed, and so on, until finally the most special arises. (iii) Every embryo of a given animal form, instead of passing through the other forms, rather becomes separated from them. (iv) The embryo of a higher form never resembles any other form, but only its embryo.
A type of angiophakomatosis, caused by certain DNA sequence variants (in the VHL gene).
A double row of vortices in a fluid sometimes found in the wake of a cylindrical body (such as in a river, downstream of a bridge support), eddies being produced from alternate sides of the body.
A certain arithmetic function that is neither multiplicative nor additive. It is denoted by Λ(n) and defined as :Λ(n)= log p mbox ifn=pᵏ mbox forsomeprimep mbox andintegerk>1,\0 mbox otherwise.
A computer architecture that uses the same buses to access both program instructions and data on which to be operated.
The entropy of a quantum state. If the state is expressed as a quantum density matrix ρ, then this entropy can be expressed mathematically as S=-tr(ρ log ρ) where tr is the trace operator and the logarithm is natural.
A neighborhood on a 2D square lattice consisting of a cell and its four orthogonal neighbors.
A procedure used to check the stability of finite difference schemes as applied to linear partial differential equations, based on the Fourier decomposition of numerical error.
In operator theory, the statement that, for a fixed contraction T, the polynomial functional calculus map is itself a contraction.
An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity.
A blood glycoprotein involved in platelet adhesion to wound sites during hemostasis.
An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity.
A monoclinic-prismatic azure mineral containing calcium, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter V contains 7,391 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 148 pages, and you are currently viewing page 136. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "V" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.