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Adansonia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Anglemeter
noun · 78% connection
An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Bath
noun · 78% connection
A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five qu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Calamite
noun · 78% connection
A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family)…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
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: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Digit
noun · 78% connection
One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight dig…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Dimension
noun · 78% connection
Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Dynameter
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to the eye en…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Ellipse
noun · 78% connection
An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Eucalyptus
noun · 78% connection
A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Gallon
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Gauge
noun · 78% connection
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Gimbals
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Hand
noun · 78% connection
A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Head
noun · 78% connection
The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Hectolitre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Height
noun · 78% connection
Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
Homer
noun · 78% connection
A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry mea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, measure, height, diameter, trees.
