(chemistry) The bivalent R-O-R functional group found in ethers.
(countable, uncountable, slang, pharmacology) Clipping of oxycodone, an opioid similar to heroin.
(informal) Clipping of oxyacetylene, a mixture of oxygen and acetylene used for cutting and welding metals.
(informal) Clipping of oxygen.
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pyx
noun
(Christianity, also figurative) A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.
(by extension, rare) A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.
(chiefly Britain) A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
(nautical, obsolete, rare) A compass used by sailors.
verb
(chiefly Britain) To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.
(figuratively) To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
(obsolete) To place (the host) in a pyx.
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Noun
The color space of the tristimulus values X, Y, and Z.
