An apparatus for weighing.
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(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
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Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.Any tree of the genus Platanus.
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.To array.
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another…
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superfic…
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to…
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Eno…
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.(mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle; "Bernhard Riemann pionee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.(mathematics) the geometry of fractals; "Benoit Mandelbrot pioneered fractal geometry"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.
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