·add. ·noun An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.
conformātor, ōris, m. [conformo], a framer, former : omnium, App. Trism. p. 80, 32. ...
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