Word Meanings - GALVANOMETRIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of, pertaining to, or measured by, a galvanometer.
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- MEASURING
Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured. - MEASURER
One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market. - MEASURABLE
1. Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation. 2. Moderate; temperate; not excessive. Of his diet measurable was he. Chaucer. -- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh - MEASURELESS
Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - MEASURE
The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic - MEASURED
Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms. -- Meas"ured*ly, adv. - GALVANOMETER
An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle. Differential galvanometer. See under Differental, a. -- Sine galvanometer, Cosine galvanometer, Tangent galvanometer , - MEASUREMENT
1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required. 2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres. - IMMEASURABLY
In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth. - IMMEASURED
Immeasurable. Spenser. - ADMEASURE
To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure. - REMEASURE
To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax. - OUTMEASURE
To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne. - TORSION GALVANOMETER
A galvanometer in which current is measured by torsion. - WATER MEASURE
A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell. - OVERMEASURE
To measure or estimate too largely. - PASSYMEASURE
See SHAK - UNMEASURABLE
Immeasurable. Swift. -- Un*meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*meas"ur*a*bly, adv. - WATER MEASURER
Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2. - COMMEASURABLE
Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional. She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had one. I. Walton. - ADMEASURER
One who admeasures.