Word Meanings - MICROBAROGRAPH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.

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• MINOR
  Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode,
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• MINORAT
  A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest
• MINORATION
  A diminution. Sir T. Browne.
• MINORATE
  To diminish. Sir T. Browne.
• PRESSURE WIRES
  Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• RECORDATION
  Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. Shak.
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• MINORESS
  See A
• GENERALITY
  1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• ALLUMINOR
  An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. Cowell.
• POSTMASTER-GENERAL
  The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
• PRECORDIAL
  Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the præcordia.