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Hermetical

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Hermetical
    Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically.
  2. Hermetical
    Of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine.
  3. Hermetical
    Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic. "Delusions of the hermetic art.", "The alchemists, as the people were called who tried to make gold, considered themselves followers of Hermes, and often called themselves Hermetic philosophers."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. hermetical
    Same as Hermetic.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Hermetical
    hėr-met′ikal belonging in any way to the the beliefs current in the Middle Ages under the name of Hermes, the Thrice Great: belonging to magic or alchemy, magical: perfectly close
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. hermétique,. See Note under Hermes, 1

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary From Hermēs Trismegistos, Hermes 'the thrice-greatest,' the Greek name for the Egyptian god Thoth, who was god of science, esp. alchemy.

Usage in the news

That's true with respect to both the singularity of his deadpan, dialogic style and his hermetic milieu. estword.com

Voltage Controlled Oscillator Is in Hermetically Sealed TO-8 Package. ecnmag.com

TO-8 VCO Are Hermetically Sealed . ecnmag.com

Model CMA-62+ is a ceramic -packaged, hermetically sealed, nitrogen-filled monolithic amplifier from Mini-Circuits with flat gain from 10 MHz to 6 GHz. mwrf.com

The project will develop biocompatible hermetic coatings, high density ceramic feed-throughs, and hermeticity test chips for biomedical microsystems applications. mdtmag.com

If you can't afford the latest in hermetically-sealed, super energy-efficient windows, or if your front door is a '70s leftover that lets in almost as much air closed as open, you're not out of luck. koco.com

What is the proper size branch-circuit, short-circuit, ground-fault protective device required for a hermetic compressor with a nameplate rated load of 38A. ecmweb.com

The hermetically sealed, fiber-in-metal tube cables can be used to house and shield the company's mid-infrared Fibers (iGuideTM) against severe physical (e.g. ceramicindustry.com

There is no remoteness of life and thought, no hermetically sealed seclusion, except, possibly, that of the grave, into which the disturbing influences of this war do not penetrate. theatlantic.com

PTE5000 hermetically sealed modular pressure sensors use a thin film strain gauge sensing element and custom ASIC for accurate and highly stable output. hydraulicspneumatics.com

In the first scene of The Iron Lady , 80-something Margaret Thatcher is presented as a little old lady unfit for the fast-moving world outside her hermetic London townhouse. browardpalmbeach.com

Star Meryl Streep, eightysomething Margaret Thatcher is presented as a little old lady unfit for the fast-moving world outside her hermetic London townhouse. ocweekly.com

Star Meryl Streep, 80-something Margaret Thatcher is presented as a little old lady unfit for the fast-moving world outside her hermetic London townhouse. laweekly.com

Have you been looking for a digital desk with a hermetically-sealed touchscreen and the same high quality pre-amps as used in the DiGiCo D5 series. livedesignonline.com

Hermetically sealed Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has briefly emerged for a round of media appearances, as part of his official campaign launch, before returning to the vault like one of those classic Disney movies. blog.thephoenix.com

Usage in scientific papers

The large acceptance and nearly hermetic electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters were designed for jet measurements and are uniquely suited to perform these measurements in heavy ion collisions.
Elucidating Jet Energy Loss in Heavy Ion Collisions

Photons from Kπ2 and radiative kaon decays were detected in a hermetic photon veto system with 4-π sr solid angle coverage as shown in Figure 2.
Study of the decay K+ => pi+,nu,nubar in the momentum region 140<Ppi<199 MeV/c

It has to have an extremely high granularity, while being compact and hermetic.
Status of the CALICE analog calorimeter technological prototypes

These include: Energy Leakage: Hermeticity and resolution constraints require that the calorimeters be placed inside the superconducting coil to avoid serious degradation of calorimeter performance.
Calorimetry for Lepton Collider Experiments - CALICE results and activities

The different final states of e+ e− annihilations can be measured and identified with large efficiency and confidence, due to the hermetic and redundant detector technologies realised by all four experiments.
Standard Model Physics at LEP

Usage in literature

Ranged on the shelves were several small bottles of crystal, hermetically stopped. "The Haunters & The Haunted" by Various

The hermetic isolation which during the world war divided Europe into two separate worlds made this doubly urgent. "In the World War" by Count Ottokar Czernin

Cover the saucepan hermetically and cook on a very low fire for five hours. "The Italian Cook Book" by Maria Gentile

But he was as prudent as all other hermetic philosophers. "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay

The experiments with hermetically sealed flasks have reached the number of 940. "Fragments of science, V. 1-2" by John Tyndall

Sometimes it is formed in large flat pieces; and of late years it has been preserved in a liquid state in hermetically closed vessels. "The Western World" by W.H.G. Kingston

His house in the park is hermetically sealed, ready for him. "The Letters of Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens

It is also the name given to highly cooked meat in hermetically sealed tin canisters. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

The tapestry was taken from its case, rolled with care and placed in a zinc cylinder, hermetically sealed. "The Tapestry Book" by Helen Churchill Candee

When the mould is filled within an inch of the top, cover it with Roman punch, close the mould hermetically, and bury in ice. "Choice Cookery" by Catherine Owen

Usage in poetry
The ordinary milkman brought that dawn
Of destiny, delivered to the door
In square hermetic bottles, while the sun
Ruled decree of doomsday on the floor.
In fake Hermetic uniforms
Behind our battle-line, in swarms
That keep alighting,
His existentialists declare
That they are in complete despair,
Yet go on writing.
In our morale must lie our strength:
So, that we may behold at length
Routed Apollo's
Battalions melt away like fog,
Keep well the Hermetic Decalogue,
Which runs as follows:—