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Vernier

A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.

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Scale 76% connected

The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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A unknown · 78% connection

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…

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Alcoholmeter noun · 78% connection

An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either…

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Alidade noun · 78% connection

The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off o…

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Altimeter noun · 78% connection

An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc.

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Backstaff noun · 78% connection

An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so call…

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Barometrical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.

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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…

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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…

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Centigrade adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts.

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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…

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Coast verb · 78% connection

The side of a thing.

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D valve unknown · 78% connection

A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide.

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Director noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

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Divide verb · 78% connection

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Drag noun · 78% connection

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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Echometer noun · 78% connection

A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals.

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Ensign noun · 78% connection

A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; --…

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Forestaff noun · 78% connection

An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-st…

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