dia-, di-

To prepare for oneself, to revise, to edit; from Greek and Modern Latin dia-, "across, through" and skeuaein, "to prepare, to make ready, to furnish with something".

A word for "editor", which comes from Greek, "to make ready" plus "implement"; therefore, someone who makes a revision or who is an editor; a reviser.

1. The dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture); the dispersion of a people from their original homeland.
2. The dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity; such as, a language or culture: “The diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages.”
3. The dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time.
4. The body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel.
5. Coined 1876 from Greek diaspora, from diaspeirein "to scatter about, to disperse", from dia- "about, across" + speirein, "to scatter". Originally in Deuteronomy of the Old Testament Bible; chapter 28, verse 25: "The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth."

1. Heated by high-frequency electromagnetic radiation.
2. Freely permeable by radiant heat.

The property of being diathermic or diathermanous; perviousness to radiant heat; diathermaneity.

The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat.

1. Having the property of freely transmitting radiant heat.
2. A description of a substance or a space that allows the passage of heat; especially, one that is highly conductive to heat.

1. The therapeutic passing of high-frequency electric currents through the body by means of external electrodes in order to generate heat within the body.
2. Medical diathermy, in which the tissues are warmed but not sufficiently to change their nature.
3. Surgical diathermy, in which there is sufficient heating to produce a local change such as destruction of tissue or coagulation of bleeding vessels.
4. Local elevation of temperature within the tissues, produced by high frequency current, ultrasonic waves, or microwave radiation.

1. A bitter, abusive criticism, or denunciation.
2. Etymology: the Greek word diatribe, the ultimate source of the English word, is derived from the verb diatribein, made up of the prefix dia-, "completely", and tribein, "to rub, to wear away, to spend," or "to waste time, to be busy".

1. The tendency of a plant or plant part to grow at right angles in response to an external stimulus such as light.
2. The tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.

1. A procedure for removing metabolic waste products or toxic substances from the bloodstream by dialysis.
2. Dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure.
3. The removal of certain elements from the blood by virtue of the difference in the rates of their diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.

Two distinct physical processes are involved, diffusion and ultrafiltration; also called, dialysis, kidney dialysis, and renal dialysis.

The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism.