ortho- 或 orth-
pref.(前缀)
语源
pref.(前缀)
- Straight; upright; vertical:
直的;直立的;竖直的:
orthotropous.
直生的 - Perpendicular:
垂直的:
orthorhombic.
正交的 - Correct; correction:
正确的;正确:
orthopsychiatry.
行为精神病学 - The most fully hydrated form of an acid or of its salts:
酸或它的盐的最完全的氢化物形式:
orthoboric acid.
原硼酸 - Diatomic molecules in which the nuclei have the same spin direction:
核子有相同旋转方向的双原子分子:
orthohydrogen.
正氢 - Of or relating to one of three possible isomers of a benzene ring with two attached chemical groups in which the carbon atoms with attached groups are adjacent:
苯环的同分异构物:属于或关于苯环的三种可能的同分异构物的,该同分异构物有两个附带的化学链,在链中附带有的链的碳原子紧紧相邻:
ortho- dibromobenzene.
ortho- dibromobenzene
语源
- Middle English
中古英语 - from Old French
源自 古法语 - from Latin
源自 拉丁语 - from Greek
源自 希腊语 - from orthos [straight, correct, right]
源自 orthos [直的,正确的,对的]
ortho- or (before a vowel) orth-
combining form
straight or upright
⇒
orthotropous
perpendicular or at right angles
⇒
orthoclastic
correct or right
⇒
orthodontics
⇒
orthodox
⇒
orthography
⇒
orthoptics
(often in italics) denoting an organic compound containing a benzene ring with substituents attached to adjacent carbon atoms (the 1,2- positions)
⇒
orthodinitrobenzeneo- Compare meta- (sense 4) Compare para-1 (sense 6)
denoting an oxyacid regarded as the highest hydrated form of the anhydride or a salt of such an acid
⇒
See meta- (sense 6)
orthophosphoric acid
See meta- (sense 6)
denoting a diatomic substance in which the spins of the two atoms are parallel
⇒
See para-1 (sense 8)
orthohydrogen
See para-1 (sense 8)
Origin
from Greek orthos straight, right, uprightortho-
Word Origin
1
a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “straight,” “upright,” “right,” “correct” (orthodox) and on this model used in the formation of compound words (orthopedic).
2
Chemistry.
- a combining form used in the name of that acid in a given series of acids that contains the most water (orthoboric acid).Compare meta-, pyro-.
- a combining form used in the names of the salts of these acids: if the acid ends in -ic, the corresponding salt ends in -ate (orthoboric acid (H3BO3) and potassium orthoborate (K3BO3)); if the acid ends in -ous, the corresponding salt ends in -ite (orthoantimonous acid (H3SbO3) and potassium orthoantimonite (K3SbO3)).
Also, especially before a vowel, orth-.
Origin
< Greek, combining form of orthós straight, upright, correct
Related Words
- meta-
- orthoboric acid
- orthoclastic
- orthodox
- orthoepy
- orthogonal
ortho-1. a word element meaning 'straight', 'upright', 'right', 'correct', used in combination.
2. Chemistry
a. a prefix indicating that acid of a series which contains most water. Compare meta-, pyro-.
b. a prefix applied to a salt of one of these acids: if the acid ends in -ic, the corresponding salt ends in -ate, as orthoboric acid (H3BO3) and potassium orthoborate (K3BO3); if the acid ends in -ous, the corresponding salt ends in -ite, as orthoantimonous acid (H3SbO3) and potassium orthoantimonite (K3SbO3).
c. a prefix indicating the presence of a benzene ring with two substituents in the 1, 2 positions.
[Greek, combining form of orthos straight, upright, right, correct]ortho-
combining form
⇨ see orth-
combining form
⇨ see orth-
ortho-
combining form
1.
- straight; rectangular; upright表示“直的”; “直角的”, “正交的”; “直立的”:
-
orthodontics.
- ■ right; correct表示“对的”, “正确的”:
-
orthoepy.
2.
- Chemistry denoting substitution at two adjacent carbon atoms in a benzene ring, e.g. in 1,2 positions【化】表示“邻(位)”:
-
orthodichlorobenzene.
比较
META- ,PARA- 1.
3.
- Chemistry denoting a compound from which a meta-compound is formed by dehydration【化】表示“正”; “原”:
-
orthophosphoric acid.
词源
from Greek orthos 'straight, right'.
1857 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Orthobasicus, applied by Naumann to systems of crystallization that are coördinate, orthagonal or rectangular, viz. , the tessular, prismatic, pyramidal and rhombohedrical: *orthobasic.
1881 West in Jrnl. Bot. X. 115This species belongs to the *orthocarpous leiophyllous Hypnaceae.
1844 Mech. Mag. XLI. 337At the late meeting of the British Association, Dr. Robinson exhibited and explained the *Orthochronograph, an ingenious instrument recently introduced.. the ascertaining of correct time. [ for]
1882 W. A. Forbes in Rep. Challenger Exp. IV. 10The arrangement of the intestinal folds is ‘*orthocœlic’, the intestine being disposed in light folds lying close to and parallel with each other.
1857 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,*Orthocelous.
1892 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Ortho⁓cœlous, having a straight or longitudinally ranged intestine.
1900 A. Hyatt in C. R. Eastman tr. von Zittel'sTextbk. Paleont. I. 573An *orthocone is the young of the straight as well as many of the coiled forms . [ of fossil cephalopod]
1935 Twenhofel & Shrock Invertbr.Paleontol. ix. 368Early cephalopod shells were dominantly straight or but slightly coiled... Among the Nautiloidea this type of shell is known as an orthocone.
1969 Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles iv. 88In the Durness sequence..the commonest fossils are gastropods..together with orthocone cephalopods.
1970 R. M. Black ElementsPalaeont. viii. 78Orthoceras and similar orthocones range in length from about 3 cm to possibly 460 cm.
1926 A. F. Foerste in Jrnl. Sci. Lab. DenisonUniv. XXI. v. 304 (heading)*Orthoconic genera.
Ibid. 310The specimen is figured as having its ventral side ribbed and fluted vertically in a manner very similar to that of Kionoceras, a form of ornamentation unknown in any other orthoconic triangular cephalopod.
1935 Twenhofel & Shrock Invertbr.Paleontol. ix. 367 (caption)Idealized diagram of an orthoconic cephalopod.
1974 Nature 8 Feb. 396/1 Glaciomarine beds..in South West Africa have yielded..an orthoconic nautiloid.
1918 J. G. Frazer Folk-Lore in Old Testament II. ii. vi. 98It has become customary to call the marriageable cousins cross-cousins, because..the related parents are of opposite or cross sexes. There has hitherto been no special name for the unmarriageable cousins, the children of two brothers or of two sisters, but for convenience I propose to call them *ortho-cousins to distinguish them from cross-cousins. In the case of ortho-cousins the related parents are of the same sex.
1932 . [ see cross-cousins.v. cross- B.]
1937 R. Stout Red Box iii. 38Ortho-cousins are..the children of two brothers or of two sisters.
1972 D. Davies Dict. Anthropol. 141Ortho-Cousin, a term little used now,..can be a synonym for parallel cousin.. or for a parallel cousin of the same unilineal descent..group as the person concerned.
1891 Taylor Elem. Geom. Conics iv. §31The locus of the point of concourse of a pair of tangents at right angles will be shewn to be a circle, which we shall term the *Orthocycle. Note, It has also been named the Director Circle, since in the parabola it degenerates into the directrix and the line infinity.
1858 Thudichum Urine 123The *ortho-diagonal is shorter than the clino-diagonal.
1868 Dana Min. Introd. (ed. 5) 27The orthodiagonal section.
1879 Rutley Stud. Rocks ix. 80Sections lying in the zone of the orthodiagonal.
1937 Fiopian Footprints VIII. 3/2 Let us hope that the history of *orthodigita will in time be replete with names of those who will..have illuminated Podiatry.
1939 H. A. Budin in Jrnl. Exper. Podiatry I. 19In his first lecture on this subject, delivered at a local society meeting in February 1934, the writer introduced some of the appliances and the technic which he had devised... For the purpose of designation of this newer phase of therapeusis, the author..chose the term Orthodigita... Orthodigita may be defined as the amelioration or correction, by non-surgical means, of toe deformities or malalignments.
Ibid. (heading),New and improved *orthodigital appliances in the non-surgical correction of deformities of the..toes.
1968 Fisher & Whitney in F. Weinstein Princ. &Pract. Podiatry xii. 265/1Although permanent orthodigital correction is sought in adults also,..the patient may need to wear the appliance continually in order to keep the toes in proper alignment.
1978 Chiropodist XXXIII. 105 Although I personally favour the qualities (for most orthodigita) of KE 20 silicone rubber, I have found that Otoform provides..an inexpensive and effective method of introducing removable silicone appliances to patients.
1895 Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §328This variety of dome is termed the *ortho-dome, because, like the ortho-prisms, it has an ortho-symmetrical character.
1956 Jrnl. Chem. Physics XXIV. 1239 (heading)Magnetic properties of a gadolinium *orthoferrite, GdFeO3, crystal.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. &Technol. V. 219/2Many of the orthoferrites are strongly ferromagnetic at liquid helium temperatures.
1971 Sci. Amer. June 83/2The first magnetic materials found to have the desired properties for studying the new bubble technology were orthoferrites, a special class of ferrites with the chemical formula RFeO3, where R represents yttrium or one or more rare-earth elements. Samarium terbium orthoferrite is a good example.
1897 Lancet 18 Sept. 738/1 It has been found by Dr. Einhorn and Dr. Heintz, of Munich, that the compound methylic ether of amidoxybenzoic acid is possessed of remarkable anæsthetic, or rather analgesic, properties when locally applied. To this substance the name of ‘*orthoform’ has been given.
1940 F. R. Davison Synopsis Materia Medica xi. 383Orthoform..has also been used in dentistry, nasal catarrh, hay fever, and in similar conditions.
1965 Faulconer & Keys Foundations Anesthesiol. II. iv. 806In the light of these considerations it is understandable that the Orthoform group anesthetizes better than the corresponding benzoyl combinations.
1874 R. Bown Man. Bot. 418The typical and orthodox method, which may be styled *Orthogamy, or direct (‘straight’) fertilisation.
1941 *Orthogeosynclinal . [ see parageosynclines.v. para-1 1]
1945 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LVI. 1172Marginal geosynclines gaining principal detritus from uplifts in orthogeosynclinal belts.
1975 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. &Technol. 223/1The orthogeosynclinal belts of Stille and Kay have come to be understood as an assemblage of crustal features related to continental shelf subsidence.
1936 tr. H. Stille inBull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists XX. 853Although the orogenic movements took place at the same time in different areas, they were strong (Alpine type) only in certain mobile belts which had developed as *orthogeosynclines.
1951 Mem. Geol. Soc. Amer. XLVIII. 88The later Devonian and Carboniferous are of argillite and graywacke when detritus could reach the subsiding structural basin from distant highlands of rocks laid in orthogeosynclines.
1968 Orthogeosyncline . [ see foredeeps.v. fore- 5]
1877 Fraser's Mag. XVI. 565The discrepance between our orthography and our *orthoglossy gravely discourages foreigners.
1902 *Orthogneiss . [ see paragneisss.v. para-1 1]
1932 A. Harker Metamorphism xvii. 271The more or less distinctly banded crystalline rocks which are conveniently styled orthogneisses (in contradistinction to paragneisses, which are highly metamorphosed sediments) attain in some countries a vast development.
1962 Mineral. Abstr. XV. 553/2Alkaline syenitic orthogneisses form a lenticular body 5 km in length in biotite gneisses in the Cevadais area, near Ouguela, Alto Alentejo, Portugal.
1937 D. L. Gunn et al. in Nature 18 Dec. 1064/2Variations in generalized, undirected, random locomotory activity..are kineses... We propose to divide kineses into (a) *ortho⁓kineses..variations in linear velocity (previously called simply kineses), . [ etc.]
1940 Fraenkel & Gunn Orientation of Animals ii. ii. 17Woodlice aggregate in moist air..by means of an ortho-kinesis.
1971 J. D. Carthy in J. E. Smith et al. Invertebr. Panorama xii. 251This behaviour, consisting of changing rates of movement with different levels of stimulation, is known as an orthokinesis.
1958 ― Introd. BehaviourInvertebr. xii. 317When the stones are beneath the surface..they do not tend to congregate by a simple *orthokinetic response. [ sc. chitons]
1973 Nature 16 Nov. 168/1 An orthokinetic effect may serve to influence adult movements, as their rate of progress over the reefs is almost certainly affected by the ease with which they can find adequate food and shelter from day⁓light.
1907 Practitioner Apr. 530 The chief disadvantage of Goldscheider's *ortho-percussion is that it requires an absolutely silent room.
1916 L. F. Barker MonographicMed. II. 499In orthopercussion, the force of the blow is directed exactly perpendicular to the surface.
1966 Lancet 31 Dec. 1469/1 The technique of percussion (ortho⁓percussion) of the patient's abdomen in order to recognise peritoneal irritation is shown.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C. ) 2 July 6/6 (Advt. ),The genuine His Master's Voice Victrola is the only true *orthophonic.
1927 Gramophone V. 309/2 The gramophone part of it contains an improved form of orthophonic horn.
1954 Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 155Orthophonic, relating to orthophony..; conformable with the standard or accepted rules of pronunciation.
1969 John Edwards Mem. Foundation Q. V. ii. 81This valuable discographic aid lists all Victor Recordings..starting with the introduction of the electrical ‘orthophonic’ recording system in February, 1925.
1845 W. Russell ( title)*Orthophony, or Vocal Culture, a Manual of elementary Exercises for the Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution.
Ibid. p. xiii,The term orthophony is used to designate the art of cultivating the voice. The systematic cultivation of the vocal organs..is a branch of education for which our own language furnishes no appropriate designation. The compiler of this manual has ventured to adopt, as a term convenient for this purpose, the word orthophony—a modification of the corresponding French word ‘orthophonie’, used to designate the art of training the vocal organs.
1954 Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 155Orthophony, Correct pronunciation or articulation.
1886 *Orthophoria . [ see exophorias.v. exo-]
1907 J. H. Parsons Dis. Eye xxviii. 563In cases of latent squint the position of rest is not orthophoria, with the visual axes parallel, but heterophoria, with some deviation of the axes.
1950 F. H. Alder Physiol. Eye x. 386It is unfortunate that the implication is frequently made that orthophoria is the normal condition and heterophoria an abnormal one. This is not true.
1888 Arch. Ophthalm. XVII. 159In the *orthophoric state the eyes are able to unite images when a prism of 2° to 3° is introduced with its base up or down before one of the eyes.
1954 S. Duke-Elder Parsons'Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xxix. 483Since the position of rest is usually one of slight divergence, few people are orthophoric and some degree of heterophoria is almost universal.
1965 Photogrammetric Engin. XXXI. 223/1Several stereo aerial models from test areas were successfully compiled into contour maps and *orthophotos.
1972 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. &Technol. 245The orthophoto, like any good map, allows the engineer to lay out a proposed highway with accurate scale, direction, and curvature.
1955 Photogrammetric Engin. XXI. 529/2Given an *orthophotograph, the engineer, surveyor, forester, geologist,..can correlate points imaged on the orthophotograph with points observed on the ground, and..can make direct measurements on the orthophotograph to determine distances between points.
1970 J. A. Howard Aerial Photo-Ecol. xii. 136No doubt orthophotographs will have a wide application in natural resource studies not requiring a stereoscopic examination.
1967 Photogrammetric Engin. XXXIII. 274/1The altitude contours derived from the height measured can then be added, along with any desired annotations, to form an accurate ‘*orthophotomap’ of the area of interest.
1974 Geo Abstr. G. 520The Topographic Division of the U.S. Geological Survey produces a series of orthophoto products ranging from separate photos for in-house use..to the multicoloured orthophotomap.
1890 Cent. Dict. ,*Orthophyre.
1895 A. Harker Petrol. viii. 102The most usual type of orthoclase-porphyry (orthophyre of Rosenbusch) is exemplified by dykes and sills in the Carboniferous of Thuringia.
1930 Peach & Horne Geol. Scotl. iv. 108Examples of dykes of orthophyre occur on Sgonnan Mòr.
1947 E. E. Wahlstrom Igneous Minerals & Rocks x. 301Orthophyre is a porphyritic trachite consisting largely of orthoclase.
1895 A. Harker Petrol. viii. 102Other porphyrites have the ‘*orthophyric’ type of ground⁓mass (with short felspar-prisms), as in the porphyries.
1964 G. A. Joplin Petrogr. Austral. Igneous Rocks v. 65Most trachytes are porphyritic with phenocrysts of anorthoclase in an orthophyric and/or trachytic ground⁓mass.
1879 Rutley Stud. Rocks x. 88When the light falls obliquely either on the basal plane, the *ortho⁓pinakoid, or the hemidome of a monoclinic felspar.
1889 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XLV. ii. 299The Augite is almost colourless, and gives the usual eight-sided sections. Prismatic, *ortho- and clinopinacoidal cleavages are present.
[ 1920Svensk Bot. Tidskr. XIV. 301,I have in my material found the following numbers: 14, 21, 28, 35 and 42. Further, in some specimens, I met with numbers not being a multiple of 7 (anorthoploid forms). ]
1932 Proc. 6thInternat. Congr. Genetics II. 63The ratios between *orthoploid and aneuploid gametes in the cases studied were found to be 1·4:1.
1937 T. Dobzhansky Genetics & Origin of Species ix. 268In a translocation heterozygote at least six classes of sex cells can be produced... Classes 1 and 2 carry normal gene complements..; 1 and 2 are termed regular or orthoploid.
1963 Portugaliae Acta Biol. A. VII. 8The unfortunate terms orthoploid and anorthoploid have been used in various senses also by more recent writers.
Ibid. 9There is no doubt that euploid and aneuploid should be maintained and orthoploid and anorthoploid definitely dropped.
1895 Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §328The vertical or *ortho-prism.., usually distinguished as the prism-form, the faces of which lie in the zone . [ 100, 010]
1903 Mineral. Mag. XIII. 374Following Rinne, E. Düll..proposes the terms *ortho-pyroxene and klinopyroxene.
1940 Amer. Mineralogist XXV. 282Orthopyroxenes of plutonic igneous rocks normally show well developed diopsidic lamellae.
1963 W. A. Deer et al. Rock-FormingMin. II. 33Many orthopyroxenes can be distinguished from clinopyroxenes by their characteristic pink to green pleochroism.
1970 Science 28 Aug. 866/2 (heading) Orthopyroxene-plagioclase fragments in the lunar soil from Apollo 12.
1890 Cent. Dict. ,*Orthorhaphous.
1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. vii. 458In the Mesozoic epoch the Order is found as early as the Lias, the forms being exclusively Orthorrhaphous. [ sc. Diptera]
1946 Nature 2 Nov. 636/2 Against the orthorrhaphous Diptera, ‘Gammexane’ shows a high degree of activity.
1961 Orthorrhaphous . [ see cyclorrhaphousadj. s.v. cyclo- 1]
1892 Dana Min. Introd. p. xxxi,*Ortho-pyramids.
1898 Ibid. 101The pyramids may be unit pyramids (hhl), orthopyramids, (hkl) when h >k, or clinopyramids, (hkl) when h
1831 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) III. 468/2*Orthostyle, any straight range of columns.
1956 L. U. de Sitter Struct. Geol. i. 16A later uplift, separated from the last orogenic paroxysmal phase by a period of erosion, is typical of *orthotectonic regions.
1969 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. VI. 189The orthotectonic orogens forming island arcs such as Japan lie entirely within ocean basins.
1969 J. F. Dewey in M. Kay N. Atlantic xxiv. 309/1Strata ranging in age from late Precambrian through early Ordovician constitute a northern orthotectonic belt, characterized by complex recumbent and commonly triclinic fold geometry and high-grade metamorphism.
1921 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. XXXII. 7Limb bud placed in natural location—*orthotopic transplantation.
1958 Immunology I. 46 The survival times of successive sets of orthotopic scale (skin) homografts revealed that increasing systematic immunity develops rapidly in stepwise fashion.
1968 National Observer ( U.S. ) 29 Jan. 4/4Dr. Starzl performed the first orthotopic liver transplant, in which the diseased liver is removed and another implanted, in 1963.
1921 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. XXXII. 61The shoulder-girdle in *orthotopically grafted limbs is derived in part from the host and in part from the transplanted tissue.
1974 Nature 11 Oct. 553/1 When solid tissue allografts are transplanted orthotopically to alien hosts they are rejected with a characteristic tempo and vigour that depends primarily on the immunogenetic disparity between donor and host.
1976 Ibid. 22 Jan. 209/1We used a standardised H-test procedure in which tail-skin grafts were orthotopically exchanged in a ‘reciprocal circle’ among syngeneic mice.
18.. Shepard cited by Webster (1864) for *Orthotypous.
1967 M. E. J. Young Radiological Physics (ed. 2) xi. 372Superficial therapy..60–120 kVp. Medium voltage therapy... 120–140 kVp. Deep therapy or *orthovoltage therapy..200–400 kVp. Megavoltage therapy... Above 1 MV.
1972 Barnes & Rees Conc. Textbk. Radiotherapy iii. 63In recent years there has been a tendency for deep X-ray therapy (orthovoltage radiation) to be largely superseded by megavoltage therapy as the advantages of the higher energy radiation become more generally appreciated.
1976 Lancet 6 Nov. 1031/2 All patients received induction treatment..for 4 weeks followed by 2400 rad of orthovoltage cranial irradiation plus five intrathecal injections of methotrexate.
1966 B. V. Derjaguin in Discussions FaradaySoc. XLII. 118The usual state of water and certain other liquids is thermodynamically metastable... It would be convenient to call ‘usual water’ metawater, and the anomalous columns—*orthowater.
1969 Nature 27 Dec. 1293/1 Water condensed into glass or quartz capillaries has unusual properties, which have been ascribed to the formation of a new polymer termed ‘orthowater’, ‘anomalous’ water or ‘polywater’.
1970 Compton Yearbk. 176/2The substance, variously called orthowater, anomalous water, polywater, and super⁓water, differs radically from ordinary water.
1859 Odling in L.E. & D.Philos. Mag. Ser. iv. XXVII. 368On Ortho- and Meta-silicates. Intermediate between common or orthophosphates and metaphosphates we have several varieties of compounds, among which the best defined are the pyrophosphates, salts which result from the union of an atom of orthophosphate with an atom of metaphosphate.
1868 Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 238The prefixes ortho- and meta- have been introduced..to denote two classes of salts..the more basic salts being called ortho- and the less basic, meta- salts.
1872 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXV. 893 (heading)Preparation of orthoxylene from liquid bromotoluene.
1873 Watts Fownes'Chem. (ed. 11) 225The aqueous solution..deposits orthophosphoric acid in prismatic crystals.
1876 Harley Mat.Med. (ed. 6) 66Neutral solutions of the orthophosphates..give precipitates with salts of lime and baryta.
1877 Watts Fownes'Chem. II. 422The di-derivatives of benzene..exhibit three such modifications which are distinguished by the prefixes ortho, meta, and para: thus..Orthodichlorobenzene, 1:2, C6ClClHHHH, Metadichlorobenzene, 1:3, C6ClHClHHH; Paradichlorobenzene, 1:4, C6ClHHClHH.
1968 Economist 14 Dec. 63/3 Both BP Chemicals and ICI have existing plants for phthalic anhydride. ICI's 20,000 ton plant at Wilton manufactures from naphthalene, an older method being replaced by the ortho-xylene method as oil supersedes coal tar as a source of raw materials for the chemical industry.
1927 T. Verschoyle tr. Haas's Atomic Theory v. 182No spectroscopic transition between the normal para⁓term and the lowest (two-quantum) ortho-term is possible.
1939 J. W. T. Spinks tr. Herzberg's Molecular Spectra I. iii. 150The modification with the greater statistical weight is usually called the ortho modification and that with the smaller weight the para modification.
1940 Glasstone Text-bk. PhysicalChem. i. 79From the spectrum of helium it is known that the ortho-levels have less energy than the par-levels with the same values of the quantum numbers n and l.
Ibid. 96Symmetrical polyatomic molecules, such as water, deuterium oxide, cyanogen and acetylene, exist in ortho- and para-forms; they behave in a manner similar to hydrogen, deuterium and nitrogen molecules, since the other atoms, viz. , carbon and oxygen, have no nuclear spins.
1966 D. H. Whiffen Spectroscopy ix. 114The best-known example is hydrogen where the ortho states with odd J have three times the degeneracy of the even J or para states.
1970 P. J. Wheatley Chem. ConsequencesNucl. Spin xi. 50The hydrogen molecule, 1H2... The rotation levels with J odd are associated with symmetric nuclear states, that is with ortho states, and..the rotational levels with J even are associated with antisymmetric nuclear states, that is with para states.
Ibid. 51The deuterium molecule, 2D2... Ortho-D2 will be associated with rotational levels having even values of J, and para-D2 with those having odd values of J.
1977 Sci. Amer. Oct. 66/3The parallel quark spins combine to give each meson one unit of spin. This arrangement of spins is known in atomic physics as the ‘ortho’ configuration.
ortho-
before vowels orth-, word-forming element meaning "straight, upright, rectangular, regular; true, correct, proper," now mostly in scientific and technical compounds, from Greek ortho-, stem of orthos "straight, true, correct, regular," from PIE *eredh- "high" (cognates: Sanskrit urdhvah "high, lofty, steep," Latin arduus "high, steep," Old Irish ard "high").
ORIGIN: from Greek orthos straight, right + -o- .
☞ ortho
ortho-
— see orth-
— see orth-
ortho-
Prefix
- straight, right, proper
- chemistry Having an extra proportion of water
- chemistry in isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in adjacent positions (compare meta- and para-)
- physics of any molecule of the form X2 in which the two nuclei have parallel spin
Etymology
Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós).
Derived terms
English words prefixed with ortho-