Meaning of acribic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. meticulous, painstaking, thorough
   rare
2. (chemistry) (of a chemical name) systematic
   rare

Examples

“The plan⟳ of each card is as follows: … 5. An acribic description of the discovered objects with measurements in mm. and cm., and references to the illustrations.”

“The most acribic pantographic or computer-aided bite⟳ registration procedures of tooth-guided border⟳ movements do not necessarily result⟳ in a satisfactory occlusion.”

“Furthermore, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommended that chemists should stop⟳ using imprecise terms such as systematic and trivial. It was suggested that they be replaced by the more precise terms acribic and anacribic, but these terms have⟳ never taken hold⟳.”

“Doubtless finding it troublesome to name⟳ their product from scratch⟳, they hijacked the RTM and came up with 'Texanol benzyl phthalate'. ... More legitimate and altogether more 'acribic' would have⟳ been benzyl 3-isobutyryloxy-1-isopropyl-2 2-dimethylpropyl phthalate.”

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