tangent-scale

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• Tangent

  ·adj Touching; touching at a single point. II. Tangent ·adj meeting a curve or surface at a point a...

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• tangent

  A right line raised perpendicularly on the extremity of a radius, touching the circle without cuttin...

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• Scale

  ·noun A scale insect. (·see below.). II. Scale ·noun The sign or constellation Libra. III. Scale ·...

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• scale

  An old word for commercial emporium, derived from scala. Also, the graduated divisions by which the ...

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• Tangent spoke

  ·add. ·- A tension spoke of a bicycle or similar wheel, secured tangentially to the hub. ...

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• Tangent wheel

  ·add. ·- A wheel with tangent spokes. II. Tangent wheel ·add. ·- A worm or worm wheel; a tangent sc...

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• limb-tangent

  The accurate touch of the edge of a celestial body to the horizon. ...

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• tangent-screw

  A screw acting tangentially to a circle, by means of which a slow motion may be given to the vernier...

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• Beaufort's scale

  ·add. ·- A scale of wind force devised by Sir F. Beaufort, R. N., in 1805, in which the force is ind...

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• Beck's scale

  ·add. ·- A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to ·sp.gr. 1.00, and the 30°-point t...

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• Gunter's scale

  ·- A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham Colle...

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• Scale-winged

  ·adj Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged. ...

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• nonius scale

  , or vernier That fixed to the oblong opening near the lower end of the index-bar of a sextant or ...

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• side-scale

  A simple graduation, adopted by Sir Philip Broke in the Shannon, for the quick elevation or depressi...

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• San Jose scale

  ·add. ·- A very destructive scale insect (Aspidiotus perniciosus) that infests the apple, pear, and ...

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• off at a tangent

  Going in a hurry, or in a testy humour. ...

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