Tonic

Entertainment / Music / Tonic: The first note of a scale (the tonic or keynote do), which serves as the home base around which the other pitches revolve and to which they ultimately gravitate.
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Tonic Noun Synonyms: stimulant, restorative, invigorant, boost, refresher, Obsolete or literary ptisan or tisane, roborant, analeptic, bracer, pick-me-up, pick-up, shot in the arm, picker-upper
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Isotonic Exercise

Health / Fitness / Isotonic Exercise: Muscular action in which there is a change in length of muscle and weight, keeping tension constant. Lifting free weights is a classic isotonic exercise. MORE

Tectonics

Science / Geology / Tectonics: The study of the movements and deformation of the crust on a large scale, including epeirogeny, metamorphism, folding, faulting, and plate tectonics. MORE

Platonic Form

Entertainment / Literature / Platonic Form: The ideas, images, or patterns of which physical reality is but an imperfect or transitory symbol or expression. See discussion under Platonic. MORE

Miltonic Imagery

Entertainment / Literature / Miltonic Imagery: Imagery made famous by Milton's poetry--especially Paradise Lost. Examples include the dark angels or twisted demons laboring at Pandemonium's construction deep below the earth in fiery shadow, especi MORE

Diatonic

Entertainment / Music / Diatonic: Melody or harmony built from the seven tones of a major or minor scale. A diatonic scale encompasses patterns of seven whole tones and semitones. MORE

Platonic

Entertainment / Literature / Platonic: In common usage, people often use the word 'platonic' to mean 'intellectual rather than physical.' Thus, a Platonic love-affair is one in which the couple is attracted to each other for mental or psyc MORE