英语词汇“alchemy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	alchemy
释义	alchemy —alchemic /al kem"ik/, alchemical, alchemistic /al'keuh mis"tik/, alchemistical, adj. —alchemically, adv. /al"keuh mee/, n. , pl. alchemies for 2. 1. a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life. 2. any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value. [1325-1375; earlier alchimie < OF alquemie < ML alchymia < Ar al the + kimiya' < Gk kemeía transmutation; r. ME alconomye, equiv. to alk(imie) + (astr)onomye ASTRONOMY]
随便看	critic critical critical angle critical constant critical density critical mass critical point critical pressure critical ratio critical region critical state critical temperature critical value critical volume criticaster criticism criticize critique Critique of Pure Reason Crittenden Compromise critter Crius croak croaker croaky

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