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Micronometer :: Micronometer (n.) An instrument for noting minute portions of time.

Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Cyanometer :: Cyanometer (n.) An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring..

Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..

Secant :: Secant (a.) A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the number expressing the ratio line of this line to the radius of the circle. See Trigonometrical function, under Function..

Astronomer :: Astronomer (n.) An astrologer.

Diaphanometer :: Diaphanometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.

Exosmose :: Exosmose (n.) The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose..

Nomenclature :: Nomenclature (n.) A name.

Cataclysmist :: Cataclysmist (n.) One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

Theodolite :: Theodolite (n.) An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed..

Actinometer :: Actinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light.

Monomerous :: Monomerous (a.) Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil..

Agnomen :: Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just..

Account :: Account (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts..

Investigate :: Investigate (v. t.) To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena..

Rhythmometer :: Rhythmometer (n.) An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit..

#NAME? :: -metry () A suffix denoting the art, process, or science, of measuring; as, acidmetry, chlorometry, chronometry..

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