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Hypo   /hˈaɪpoʊ/   Listen
Hypo

noun
1.
A compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing.  Synonyms: sodium thiosulfate, sodium thiosulphate.
2.
A piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections.  Synonyms: hypodermic, hypodermic syringe.



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"Hypo" Quotes from Famous Books



... in hypo—the fixing takes place very quickly—then examine the picture for the faults above described; if they are found, wash the plate under the tap gently, and bring into operation a camel's hair brush and a weak solution of cyanide of potassium. Apply the brush to the over-printed ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 • Various

... hot' en aigialo polyechei; kyma thalasses ornyt' epassyteron Zephyrou hypo kinesantos; ponto men te prota koryssetai, autar epeita cherso rhegnymenon megala bremei, amphi de t' akras kyrton eon koryphoutai, apoptyei d' halos achnen; hos tot' epassyterai Danaon kinynto phalanges nolemeos polemonde. keleue de ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring

... fingers over the welts and bruises and commented bluntly that it was well the fishermen had returned his arms and legs into their sockets before he fully regained consciousness. It muttered and clucked to itself as it used the hypo which Johnny could ...
— Far from Home • J.A. Taylor

... and next with salt and water in the proportion of about half a grain per gallon, or quite a tasteless solution; this removes all the nitrate of silver from the paper, or if there is any left, the bath of salt decomposes it, leaving none in the texture of the paper to unite with the hypo., which otherwise forms a sticky substance, difficult to remove, which may be readily seen on looking through a positive which has been too hastily finished in the usual way, giving a dark shade, and a want of transparency to the lights. I then place the picture ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 • Various

... musician. He therefore contented himself with restoring the Ambrosian chants as far as possible; but the musical scales established by Ambrose he somewhat enlarged, adding to them four other scales called plagal. These were the Hypo-Dorian, la to la; Hypo-Phrygian, si to si; Hypo-Lydian, do to do; Hypo-AEolian, mi to mi. I do not understand that the terminal notes of these plagal scales of St. Gregory were used as key notes, but only that melodies instead of being restricted between the tonic and its octave, were permitted ...
— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews



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