aqua – definition and meaning

One volume of water will dissolve seven hundred times its bulk of this gas, and is then known as aqua ammonia, in contradistinction to anhydrous ammonia, the latter designating term meaning without water, while the term aqua is the Latin word for water.

Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

His experiments in distillation led to the discovery of what he termed aqua vitæ, or usually quinta essentia, and commended as a panacea for all disease.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Some hotels organize special events where children can do arts and crafts while parents can participate in aqua aerobics.

Beyond spring break: Cancun has something for everyone 2008

Some hotels organize special events where children can do arts and crafts while parents can participate in aqua aerobics.

Beyond spring break: Cancun has something for everyone 2008

Marks and Spencer have a nice double stipe shirt in aqua/grey, which would look good with a plain tie.

What shirt to wear with an olive green suit? « We Don’t Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006

As a product of the chemical laboratory, purple of Cassius, like Prussian blue, inspired interest and continued exploration. reference Yellow obtained from silver may have been one complementary technique; instructions that call for a solution of silver in aqua fortis, also precipitated in water, appear in a number of manuscripts and were published in several eighteenth-century chemical and general treatises. 10 reference

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

I’m a little worried about that kind of floods – I think locals call it “aqua alta”? did someone get married in Venice during winter … how was the weather?

Getting Married In Venice 2004

Here were satins that gleamed like falling water; one, of the faint, moonlight tint that we call aqua-marine, another with a rosy glow like a reflected sunset.

Three Margarets Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

We also need water to survive, let us not forget, and so vital is it that the Latin word aqua is an abbreviation of a phrase that’s something like what we need to draw from in order to live In 1999 on the islands of Japan Masaru Emoto published extraordinary research making the case that “water is a mirror reflecting our mind.”

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

We also need water to survive, let us not forget, and so vital is it that the Latin word aqua is an abbreviation of a phrase that’s something like what we need to draw from in order to live In 1999 on the islands of Japan Masaru Emoto published extraordinary research making the case that “water is a mirror reflecting our mind.”

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010