A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and TradesW. Tegg, 1846 - 755 σελίδες |
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... equal quantities of each thing are to be taken . AAA in old chemistry , stands for amal- gam , or amaigamation . AAM , a Dutch measure for liquids . At Amsterdam it is equal to about thirty - five imperial gallons . AARON'S ROD , in ...
... equal quantities of each thing are to be taken . AAA in old chemistry , stands for amal- gam , or amaigamation . AAM , a Dutch measure for liquids . At Amsterdam it is equal to about thirty - five imperial gallons . AARON'S ROD , in ...
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... equal , e.g. in the eq . x + 10x 25 , the absolute number AB'STRACT , from Lat . abs - traho , to sepa- term is 25 , which is equal to the square of rate ; distinct from something else , e.g. z , added to ten times x . - 3 . In astro ...
... equal , e.g. in the eq . x + 10x 25 , the absolute number AB'STRACT , from Lat . abs - traho , to sepa- term is 25 , which is equal to the square of rate ; distinct from something else , e.g. z , added to ten times x . - 3 . In astro ...
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... equal times ; e . g . a new impression being made upon a falling body at every instant , by the continued action of gravity , and the effect of the former still remaining , the velocity continually and uniformly in- creases ...
... equal times ; e . g . a new impression being made upon a falling body at every instant , by the continued action of gravity , and the effect of the former still remaining , the velocity continually and uniformly in- creases ...
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... equal to 49 imperial acres . The French arpent is very nearly equal to the Scotch acre . The Roman jugerum was 8200 sq . yards . -2 . In the Mogul's dominions acre is the same as lack 100,000 rupees = 12,5001 . sterling . - 3 . Acre ...
... equal to 49 imperial acres . The French arpent is very nearly equal to the Scotch acre . The Roman jugerum was 8200 sq . yards . -2 . In the Mogul's dominions acre is the same as lack 100,000 rupees = 12,5001 . sterling . - 3 . Acre ...
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... equal to 120 Roman feet . In agriculture , the length of one furrow . Lat . ACUITION , Lat . acuitio ( from acuo , to ACU'LEUS , a spine or prickle , from acus , a needle ; plural aculei , ( q . v . ) The aculei of plants are peculiar ...
... equal to 120 Roman feet . In agriculture , the length of one furrow . Lat . ACUITION , Lat . acuitio ( from acuo , to ACU'LEUS , a spine or prickle , from acus , a needle ; plural aculei , ( q . v . ) The aculei of plants are peculiar ...
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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 309 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Σελίδα 136 - The person who writes or draws the bill is called the drawer. The person to whom it is addressed is called the drawee.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 36 - affray" is denned to be "the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of the people.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.