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Alignment
noun · 78% connection
The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Breasting
noun · 78% connection
The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Breastwheel
noun · 78% connection
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Bucket
noun · 78% connection
One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Calipers
n. pl. · 78% connection
An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Chronograph
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Circumrotation
noun · 78% connection
The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Collimation
noun · 78% connection
The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Concave
adjective · 78% connection
Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surfac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Counterbalance
noun · 78% connection
A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Crown wheel
unknown · 78% connection
A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Extensometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Fan
noun · 78% connection
Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Fly
verb · 78% connection
A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Hum
noun · 78% connection
A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Jigger
n. & v. · 78% connection
A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Lens
noun · 78% connection
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
Line
noun · 78% connection
A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, revolving, wheel, measuring, curved.
