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band (BAND) (noun)
1. A group, a company, a party, or a crowd: A band of students brought their grievances before the dean.
2. An ensemble or group of wood winds, brass instruments, and percussion instruments: The band played for the enthusiastic audience until midnight.
3. A strip, circlet, strap; belt, collar, or ribbon: Aurora's hair was held in place by a velvet band.
2. An ensemble or group of wood winds, brass instruments, and percussion instruments: The band played for the enthusiastic audience until midnight.
3. A strip, circlet, strap; belt, collar, or ribbon: Aurora's hair was held in place by a velvet band.
A dark band of clouds was on the horizon.
band (BAND) (verb)
To unite, to join, or to gather as a group: Kirby, the student president, said that if we all band together, we can give our complaints greater strength.
banned (BAND) (verb)
Prohibited, restricted, barred, excluded, banished: Bicycles are banned from the new superhighway.
The school threatened to have the book banned because of its vulgar content.
The rock group was so bad that the audience wanted the untalented band to be banned.
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(Greek: band, bond; ligament)
(Latin: band, bandage; bundle, bunch; used in the extended sense of "pertaining to the fascia", a band or sheet of fibrous tissue providing a subcutaneous covering for various parts of the body)
(Greek > Latin: that which binds tightly, press together; band, lace; hence, muscle that closes an aperture of the body; a ringlike band of muscle fibers that constricts a passage or closes a natural orifice)
(Greek > Latin: ribbon, band, stripe; tapeworm, tapeworms)
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band music
An ensemble of musicians primarily playing woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments, as distinguished from an orchestra, which contains stringed instruments.
Another designation for the word band music has wider vernacular applications, from generalized usage (as in "dance band" and "jazz band") to the very specific (as in "harmonica band", "brass band", and "string band").
The term was first used in England to apply to the "king’s band" of 24 violins at the court of Charles II who reigned in 1660–1685, a group which was based on Louis XIV's (king of France from 1643 to 1715) famous group of violins.
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musico-, music- +
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bandage, bandage, Band-Aid, band-aid
bandage (BAND dij) (noun)
A covering; such as, a strip of cloth that protects or supports part of the body that has been injured: The doctor wrapped a bandage around Stefan's arm after he fell off his bicycle.
bandage (BAND dij) (verb)
To cover or to wrap a wound or other injury with a strip of cloth: Trisha's mother had to bandage her daughter's knee to stop the bleeding.
Band-Aid (BAND ayd") (noun)
A trademark used for an adhesive bandage with a gauze pad in the center, used to protect minor wounds: After Jake cut his finger with his pocket knife, he was able to put on a Band-Aid to stop the bleeding.
band-aid (BAND ayd") (adjective)
Always used before a noun, disapproving; able to help or to improve something only for a short time: The government could only provide a band-aid solution to the problem of unemployment.
True welfare reform is being bypassed by the U.S. Congress with band-aid solutions.
The nurse used a Band-Aid as a bandage to help the hiker who had fallen and skinned his elbow; however, it was an inadequate band-aid attempt because it was too small to properly bandage the bleeding injury.
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electronic band
A spectrum band composed of molecules which is usually found in the visible or the ultraviolet because of the electron transition taking place with the molecule.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
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electronic band spectrum
1. A spectrum characteristic of molecules that consists of bands of spectral lines corresponding to electron transitions accompanied by vibrational or rotational transitions.
2. Bands of spectral lines connected with a change of electronic state of a molecule.
2. Bands of spectral lines connected with a change of electronic state of a molecule.
Each band is corresponding to vibrational energies in the initial and final conditions and each band consists of numerous rotational lines.
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latitudinal band
In cartography, or maps, any latitukdinal strip, designated by accepted units of linear or angular measurements, which circumscribe the earth.
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latitud-, lati-, latis- +
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1. A group, a company, a party, a body, a troop, a crowd, or a bunch: A band of students brought their grievances before the dean of the university.
2. Orchestras, an ensemble, groups: Two different musical bands played until midnight last evening.
3. A binding, a ribbon, a sash, a belt, a collar, a girdle: Daria's hair was held in place by a velvet band.
2. Orchestras, an ensemble, groups: Two different musical bands played until midnight last evening.
3. A binding, a ribbon, a sash, a belt, a collar, a girdle: Daria's hair was held in place by a velvet band.
Dark bands of clouds were forming on the horizon indicating the coming of a rainstorm.
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band (verb), bands; banded; banding
1. To unite, to join, to consolidate; to gather as a group: If the students can band together, they are convinced that they can give their complaints greater strength.
2. To attach a tag or an identification marker to an animal so its movements can be tracked: The veterinarian was careful when she was banding Mary's dog.
2. To attach a tag or an identification marker to an animal so its movements can be tracked: The veterinarian was careful when she was banding Mary's dog.
Amazingly, when the dog was lost as a result of a storm, it was found by Alanna some miles away and because it was banded, she was able to return the dog to Mary.
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band gap
In a semiconductor, the energy difference between the highest valence band and the lowest conduction band.
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band gap energy; Eg
The amount of energy (in electron volts) required to free an outer shell electron from its orbit about the nucleus to a free state, and thus promote it from the valence to the conduction level.
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conduction band or conduction level
An energy band in a semiconductor in which electrons can move freely in a solid, producing a net transport of charge.
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valence band
The highest energy band in a semiconductor that can be filled with electrons.
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Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms +
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