Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Normal firmness or functional readiness in body tissues or organs.
- noun The sustained partial contraction of resting or relaxed muscles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, occasionally employed to denote the quality of dead, as well as living, tissue.
- noun Tone; the state or property of possessing tone or of being tonic; specifically, in physiol; the elasticity of living parts—a property of the muscles which is distinct from true irritability, and determines the general tone of the solids.
- noun In music. See the quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The normal presence of
tone ortension in amuscle ororgan ;tonus - noun sciences The ability of a
solution to exert anosmotic pressure upon amembrane
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
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Examples
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Evaluations from consumers selected to try the product included improvement in skin firmness, tonicity and hydration level.
Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Fish Oil for Your Face? The New Anti-Aging Phenomenon M.D. Robert Tornambe 2011
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According to the invite, socials will arrive for a cocktail hour to sample Talika's Bust Serum, which "after six weeks, increases the bra cup size by one cup, provides an 18% lift and, in many cases, improves tonicity."
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And, as a matter of fact, the proper maturation of a wine is impossible without a due amount of tartar; besides this, it develops in the wine a well-defined vigour and tonicity, which improves its taste, while it also increases its alimentary qualities.
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I also observed, carefully, her tension, the tonicity of her body. âStraighten your body, â I said.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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I also observed, carefully, her tension, the tonicity of her body.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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Whenever the rockets fall-those which are audible-he smiles, turns out to pace the ward, tears about to splash from the corners of his merry eyes, caught up in a ruddy high tonicity that can't help cheering his fellow patients.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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He's the man that correlated the theory of optimum tonicity with the relaxation technique that Korzybski had developed empirically.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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He's the man who correlated the theory of optimum tonicity with the relaxation technique that Korzybski had developed empirically.
The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966
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Cases of too frequent nocturnal emissions accompanied by languor and headache are usually caused by irritability or lack of tonicity of the sexual apparatus, particularly of the seminal vesicles and the ducts.
The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male Winfield Scott Hall
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But the muscles follow immediately in their development and rapidly gain volume and tonicity, filling out the arms, legs, back and shoulders with large masses of firm muscular tissue.
The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male Winfield Scott Hall
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