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Definition of Molar

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth. "Molar teeth"

2. Noun. Grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars.

3. Adjective. Designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution.

4. Adjective. Containing one mole of a substance. "Molar weight"

5. Adjective. Pertaining to large units of behavior. "Such molar problems of personality as the ego functions"

Definition of Molar

1. a. Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.

2. a. Having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth.

3. n. Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molars which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.

Definition of Molar

1. Noun. A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding. ¹

3. Adjective. (chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one mole of solute per litre of solution. ¹

4. Adjective. (physics) Of, or relating to a complete body of matter as distinct from its molecular or atomic constituents. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Molar

1. a grinding tooth [n -S]

Medical Definition of Molar

1. Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms. Origin: L. Moles mass. Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Molar

mokihi mokihis mokis moko mokoro mokos moksa moky mol mol wt

mola molal molal concentration molalities molality molar (current term) molar(a) molar absorbancy index molar absorption coefficient molar absorptivity

molar behaviour molar concentration molar extinction coefficient molar glands molar heat capacity molar pregnancy molar solution molar tooth molariform

Literary usage of Molar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"Diameters of crown of last superior molar: anteroposterior .014; ... There is a tubercle between the posterior pair of the first inferior true molar. ..."

2. Annual Report (1873)
"The posterior-inferior molar supports live transverse series of tubercles, ... The penultimate molar in the same jaw supports three transverso series. ..."

3. Fossil Elephantoids: from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon Kalb (2007)
"... to mid-molar were probably present on unworn molar. Specimen KE 21 (reversed drawing in Fig. 10K) (may be same individual as Fig. ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The molar Teeth (denies molares) are the largest of the permanent set, ... Each upper molar has three roots, and of these two are buccal and nearly parallel ..."

5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1891)
"The simplest modification of thia type of molar is to be found in the little Hyracotherium of the Fio. 1.—Left upper premolar and molar teeth of ..."

6. Practical Physical Chemistry by Alexander Findlay (1920)
"CHAPTER VII molar WEIGHT OF SUBSTANCES IN SOLUTION IN Chapter III. we learned how the molar weight of a substance in the gaseous state could be determined; ..."

7. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1859)
"and was implanted Almost directly backward in the ascending border of the ramus, above the level of the heel of the sectorial molar. ..."

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