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Cadrans
noun · 78% connection
An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Cathetometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Chyometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Circle
noun · 78% connection
A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Circumferentor
noun · 78% connection
A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Clepsydra
noun · 78% connection
A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Dial
noun · 78% connection
An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Drop
noun · 78% connection
The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured po…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Drosometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Echometer
noun · 78% connection
A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Elimination
noun · 78% connection
The act of expelling or throwing off
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Entropy
noun · 78% connection
A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Equal
adjective · 78% connection
Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Equatorial
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Faucet
noun · 78% connection
A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desire…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Graduate
noun · 78% connection
To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rew…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Harpoon
noun · 78% connection
A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, tri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
Hourglass
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: apparatus, delivering, measured, quantities, liquid.
