A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and TradesW. Tegg, 1846 - 755 sider |
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... surface . ACROT'ISM , Lat . acrotismus , defect of pulse . ACRYDIUM , in entomology , a genus of orthoptera of the saltatoria family . This genus contains the noted insects called locusts , the scourge of Africa . Mr. Barrow records ...
... surface . ACROT'ISM , Lat . acrotismus , defect of pulse . ACRYDIUM , in entomology , a genus of orthoptera of the saltatoria family . This genus contains the noted insects called locusts , the scourge of Africa . Mr. Barrow records ...
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... surface on which we stand , or other surface to which we refer it , as the elevation of a meteor . - 2 . In mensuration , altitudes are divided into accessible and inaccessible , according as the base is approachable or inapproachable ...
... surface on which we stand , or other surface to which we refer it , as the elevation of a meteor . - 2 . In mensuration , altitudes are divided into accessible and inaccessible , according as the base is approachable or inapproachable ...
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... surface , it has to overcome two obstacles : one is the friction of the surface over which the body moves , and the other the weight of the body itself . There is , in every case , a certain direction of the drawing power which is best ...
... surface , it has to overcome two obstacles : one is the friction of the surface over which the body moves , and the other the weight of the body itself . There is , in every case , a certain direction of the drawing power which is best ...
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... surface , a line ; and of a solid , a surface . - An object may have apparent motion when it is really at rest ( at least , relatively speaking ) ; as in the case of an observer moving in one direction , any remote object at rest will ...
... surface , a line ; and of a solid , a surface . - An object may have apparent motion when it is really at rest ( at least , relatively speaking ) ; as in the case of an observer moving in one direction , any remote object at rest will ...
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... surface of the arch A D C , is called the intrados by geometers , and soffet by architects , or popularly the arch . The extrados is the convex surface A'D ' B ' . The span , called by geometers the chord of the arch , is measured from ...
... surface of the arch A D C , is called the intrados by geometers , and soffet by architects , or popularly the arch . The extrados is the convex surface A'D ' B ' . The span , called by geometers the chord of the arch , is measured from ...
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Side 250 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Side 309 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Side 136 - The person who writes or draws the bill is called the drawer. The person to whom it is addressed is called the drawee.
Side 156 - Bow, is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stem or prow. On the bow, an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees.
Side 153 - Alfred : who, to prevent the rapines and disorders which formerly prevailed in the realm, instituted tithings ; so called from the Saxon, because ten freeholders with their families composed one. These all dwelt together, and were sureties or free pledges to the king for the good behaviour of each other ; and if any offence was committed in their district, they were bound to have the offender forthcoming b.
Side 227 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another.
Side 390 - The power or faculty of the mind, by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the organs of sense.
Side 36 - affray" is denned to be "the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of the people.
Side 4 - For I perceived that, if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction than that of the line passing through the eye and...
Side 243 - ... when there are four proportionals, and it is inferred, that the excess of the first above the second, is to the second, as the excess of the third above the fourth, is to the fourth.