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Blowtube
noun · 78% connection
A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Bulb
noun · 78% connection
An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, cur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Bulbar
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralys…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Bulblet
noun · 78% connection
A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or rep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Burette
noun · 78% connection
An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It co…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
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: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Caesura
noun · 78% connection
A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Calibrate
verb · 78% connection
To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the vari…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Calibration
noun · 78% connection
The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
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: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Corm
noun · 78% connection
A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Crystal
noun · 78% connection
A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Decalcomania
noun · 78% connection
the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Decalcomanie
noun · 78% connection
The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Elimination
noun · 78% connection
Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Equation
noun · 78% connection
An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Flint glass
unknown · 78% connection
A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
Geissler tube
unknown · 78% connection
A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, glass, tube, enlargement, bulb.
