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61Hadley's quadrant — Quadrant Quad rant, n. [L. quadrans, antis, a fourth part, a fourth of a whole, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. quadrant, cadran. See {Four}, and cf. {Cadrans}.] 1. The fourth part; the quarter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geom.) The… …
62Quadrant — Quad rant, n. [L. quadrans, antis, a fourth part, a fourth of a whole, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. quadrant, cadran. See {Four}, and cf. {Cadrans}.] 1. The fourth part; the quarter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geom.) The quarter of a… …
63Quadrant of altitude — Quadrant Quad rant, n. [L. quadrans, antis, a fourth part, a fourth of a whole, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. quadrant, cadran. See {Four}, and cf. {Cadrans}.] 1. The fourth part; the quarter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geom.) The… …
64Dynastie Song/Traduction à faire — Modèle:Otheruses Sommaire 1 0 2 Histoire de la dynastie Song 2.1 Les Song du Nord 2.2 Les Song du Sud …
65vernier — /ˈvɜniə/ (say verneeuh) noun Also, vernier scale. 1. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel with the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, or other graduated instrument, and used for measuring a fractional part of …
66Vernier — /verr nee euhr/; Fr. /verdd nyay /, n. Pierre /pyerdd/, 1580 1637, French mathematician and inventor. * * * or vernier caliper Instrument for making very accurate linear or angular measurements. Introduced in 1631 by Pierre Vernier (с 1580–1637) …
67vernier — ver•ni•er [[t]ˈvɜr ni ər[/t]] n. 1) sur wam Also, ver′nier scale . a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of …
68compass — Synonyms and related words: Gyrosin compass, Johansson block, RDF, T square, accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, aesthetic distance, alentours, ambience, ambit, amount, annex, attain, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, border line,… …
69Tang Dynasty — For the band, see Tang Dynasty (band). Tang 唐 ← …
70Bifilar micrometer — Micrometer Mi*crom e*ter, n. [Micro + meter: cf. F. microm[ e]tre.] An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given… …
