3. Moderate bounds; limits of truth; moderation; due limits. In two hundred years, (I speak within compass,) no such commission had been executed. This sense is the same as the first, and the peculiar force of the phrase lies in the word within. 4. The extent or limit of the voice or of sound.
kgb answers Â» History & Politics Â» History Â» Who are adapids and omomyids ancestors of? Adapids & omomyids are considered true primate ancestors. It's believed adapids are ancestors of lemurs and Omomyids may be ancestral to modern Tarsiers. Tags: lemurs, ancestors. Thursday, February 02 2012.
The related suffix-ome is used to address the objects of study of such fields, such as the genome, proteome or metabolome respectively. The suffix-ome as used in molecular biology refers to a totality of some sort; similarly omics has come to refer generally to the study of large, comprehensive biological data sets.