hypo

hypo has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• A prefix signifying a less quantity, or a low state or degree, of that denoted by the word with which it is joined, or position under or beneath.
• A prefix denoting that the element to the name of which it is prefixed enters with a low valence, or in a low state of oxidization, usually the lowest, into the compounds indicated; as, hyposulphurous acid.
• n.. Hypochondria.
• n.. Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture.
• n.. a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections
• n.. a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing