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Solar
·adj A loft or upper chamber; a garret room. II. Solar ·adj Born under the predominant influence of...

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solar
an upper chamber or loft ; from the Latin SOLARIUM. S. ...

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System
·noun The collection of staves which form a full score. ·see <<Score>>, ·noun. II. System ·noun Reg...

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system
The method of disposing the correlative parts of a fortification, proposed variously by many eminent...

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Solar myth
·add. ·- A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, moti...

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Solar parallax
·add. ·- The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtended at the sun by the semidiameter of the...

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luni-solar
A chronological term; it is the moon's cycle multiplied into that of the sun. ...

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solar day
Is the interval which elapses between two successive meridian transits of the sun, and is the unit o...

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solar spectrum
The coloured image of the sun produced by refraction through a prism. ...

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solar spots
See maculæ. ...

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Ardois system
·add. ·- A widely used system of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (...

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Autokinetic system
·add. ·- In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no...

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Automixte system
·add. ·- A system (devised by Henri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline e...

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Bertillon system
·add. ·- A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropomet...

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Block system
·add. ·- A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and ...

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Cascade system
·add. ·- A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary cir...

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Case system
·add. ·- The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive...

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Chautauqua system
(of education) ·add. ·- The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools a...

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Conduit system
·add. ·- A system of electric traction, ·esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current pas...

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Continental system
·add. ·- The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continen...

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Contract system
·add. ·- The sweating system. II. Contract system ·add. ·- The system of employing convicts by sell...

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Crofton system
·add. ·- A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, assoc...

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Delsarte system
·add. ·- A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of Fran/ois Delsarte (1811 - 71), a Fren...

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Ganz system
·add. ·- A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has...

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Marconi system
·add. ·- A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Her...

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Metric system
·- ·see <<Metric>>, ·adj. ...

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Tandem system
·add. ·- = Cascade system. ...

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Torrens system
·add. ·- A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct from registration of deeds) introdu...

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graham system
A system of dietetics recommended by Sylvester Graham, a lecturer of some celebrity on temperance an...

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binary system
When two stars forming a double-star are found to revolve about each other. ...

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copernican system
The Pythagorean system of the universe, revived by Copernicus in the sixteenth century, and now conf...

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ternary system
Three stars in close proximity, and found to be in physical connection, as, for instance, ζ Cancri. ...

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warehousing system
The use of bonding places under charge of officers of the customs, in which goods may be deposited, ...

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luni-solar precession
See precession of the equinoxes. ...

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Third-rail system
·add. ·- A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, t...

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Bell system of control
·add. ·- ·see <<Cloche>>. ...

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system of the universe
See copernican system. ...

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Three-torque system of control
·add. ·- Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three...

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