iconoscope

the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin ;

icosahedron

any polyhedron having twenty plane faces ;

icsh

a gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary; stimulates ovulation in female mammals and stimulates androgen release in male mammals ;

ictalurus

channel catfishes ;

ictalurus punctatus

freshwater food fish common throughout central United States ;

icteria

New World chats ;

icteria virens

American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds ;

icteridae

American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks ;

icterus

type genus of the Icteridae ; yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia ;

icterus galbula

a kind of New World oriole ;

icterus galbula bullockii

western subspecies of northern oriole ;

icterus galbula galbula

eastern subspecies of northern oriole ;

icterus neonatorum

yellowish appearance in newborn infants; usually subsides spontaneously ;

icterus spurius

the male is chestnut-and-black ;

ictiobus

buffalo fishes ;

ictiobus niger

fish of the lower Mississippi ;

ictodosaur

intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals ;

ictodosauria

extinct reptiles of the later Triassic period ;

ictonyx

a genus of Mustelidae ;

ictonyx frenata

muishond of northern Africa ;

ictonyx striata

ferret-sized muishond often tamed ;

ictus

a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure" ;

icu

a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care ;

id

(psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity ; a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show your ID in order to get in" ; a state in the Rocky Mountains ;

id al-adha

the 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity ;

id al-fitr

a Muslim day of feasting at the end of Ramadan ;

ida

an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank ;

ida m. tarbell

United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944) ;

ida minerva tarbell

United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944) ;

ida tarbell

United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944) ;

idaho

a state in the Rocky Mountains ;

idaho falls

a town in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River ;

idahoan

a native or resident of Idaho ;

iddm

severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease ;

idea

an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take" ; the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind" ; a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him" ; your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces" ; (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" ;

ideal

the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain ; model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal ;

ideal gas

a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces ;

ideal solid

any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent ;

idealisation

a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading" ; something that exists only as an idea ; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad ;

idealism

elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued ; impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are ; (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality ;