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Webster 1913 Edition


Septic

Sep′tic

,
Adj.
[
Septi-
+
-ic
.]
(Math.)
Of the seventh degree or order.
Noun.
(Alg.)
A quantic of the seventh degree.

Sep′tic

,
Noun.
A substance that promotes putrefaction.

Webster 1828 Edition


Septic

SEP'TIC

,
Adj.
[Gr. to putrefy.]

Definition 2024


Septic

Septic

See also: septic

English

Noun

Septic (plural Septics)

  1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Cockney rhyming slang) Alternative form of septic; an American.
    • 1992 February, The Brit Pack, Spin, page 41,
      Not only didn′t he want to tour he didn′t even want “Septics” (“Septic Tanks,″ meaning Yanks) to buy his records.

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septic

septic

See also: Septic

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

septic (comparative more septic, superlative most septic)

  1. Of or pertaining to sepsis.
  2. Causing sepsis or putrefaction.
  3. Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage.
    septic tank; septic system
Translations
Related terms

Noun

septic (plural septics)

  1. A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction.
    • 1750, John Pringle, Further Experiments on Substances Resisting Putrefaction, in 1809, Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson (editors), The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume X: 1750—1755, page 86,
      But, in the prosecution of this subject, he had met with very few real septics; and found many substances, commonly accounted such, of a quite opposite nature.
  2. A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system.
    • 2008, Alexey Voinov, Systems Science and Modeling for Ecological Economics, page 244,
      The question is whether there are any spatial differences in how septics impact water quality, and whether these spatial variations should be considered when regulating septic improvement or removal.
Related terms
Coordinate terms

(septic tank, septic system):

  • leach drain
  • leach drainfield
  • leach field

External links

  • septic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • septic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • septic at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

From Latin septem (seven).

Noun

septic (plural septics)

  1. (mathematics) A mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven.
    • 2002, Ingrid C. Bauer, Fabrizio Catanese, Roberto Pignatelli, Canonical Rings of Surfaces Whose Canonical System has Base Points, Ingrid C. Bauer, et al. (editors) Complex Geometry: Collection of Papers Dedicated to Hans Grauert, page 66,
      Enriques states that it is possible to construct a family of septics with a singular curve of degree 7 and genus 4 having a triple point that degenerates to the above configuration [] .
    • 2003, Antonio Campillo, Santiago Encinas, Two Dimensional Complete Ideals, Luchezar L. Avramov, et al. (editors), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Geometry: International Conference, page 71,
      Now consider the two septics C = U7i=1Ci, D = U7i=1Di and note that for i = 1,2,3,4,5,6 the lines Ci and Di are parallel, so that the intersection of two septics S' consists of 66[sic] + 6 + 1 = 43 points and it is the singular set of a foliation of degree 6.

Adjective

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septic (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) Of the seventh degree or order.

Etymology 3

Short form of Cockney rhyming slang septic tank (Yank).

Alternative forms

Noun

septic (plural septics)

  1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, rhyming slang, derogatory) An American, a Yank.
    • 2011, Roger Rees, Out of Calamity: Stories of Trauma Survivors, unnumbered page,
      “Didn′t enjoy the septics,” he says jokingly about the Americans.
    • 2012, John Righten, The Benevolence of Rogues, page 97,
      “What′s the septics′ Achilles heel?” I said using the slang septic tank, meaning Yank.