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 supplemental air 名詞
 補呼氣量,儲氣(補呼氣)

 Reserve city. Banking In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities (specifically called central reserve cities) are required to keep their reserve on hand in cash; banks in other reserve cities may keep half of their reserve as deposits in these banks (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5195).
 In reserve, in keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve.
 Reserve air. Physiol. Same as Supplemental air, under Supplemental.
 Syn: -- Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness; reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness; modesty.
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 Re·sid·u·al a.  Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.
 Residual air Physiol., that portion of air contained in the lungs which can not be expelled even by the most violent expiratory effort. It amounts to from 75 to 100 cubic inches.  Cf. Supplemental air, under Supplemental.
 Residual error. Mensuration See Error, 6 (b).
 Residual figure Geom., the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one.
 Residual magnetism Physics, remanent magnetism. See under Remanent.
 Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc.
 Residual quantity Alg., a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b.
 Residual root Alg., the root of a residual quantity, as √(a-b).

 Sup·ple·men·tal Sup·ple·men·ta·ry a.  Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.
 Supplemental air Physiol., the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary expiration, but which, unlike the residual air, can be expelled; reserve air.
 Supplemental bill Equity, a bill filed in aid of an original bill to supply some deffect in the latter, or to set forth new facts which can not be done by amendment. --Burrill. --Daniel.
 Supplementary chords Math., in an ellipse or hyperbola, any two chords drawn through the extremities of a diameter, and intersecting on the curve.
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