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Jack :: "Jack (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack..

Altitude :: Altitude (n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc..

Wee :: Wee (n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance..

Longimetry :: Longimetry (n.) The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths.

Further :: Further (adv.) To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther.

Crane :: Crane (n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick..

Nauscopy :: Nauscopy (n.) The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.

Triangulation :: Triangulation (n.) The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them..

Springtide :: Springtail (n.) Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura..

Directrix :: Directrix (n.) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.

Outport :: Outport (n.) A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade.

Horizontal :: Horizontal (a.) Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance..

Leg :: Leg (n.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.

Grade :: Grade (n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264..

Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model..

Length :: Length (a.) Distance.

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems..

Earshot :: Earshot (n.) Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard.

Paracentrical :: Paracentrical (a.) Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center.

Random :: Random (n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball..

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