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Metric
·adj Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
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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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Electro-metric
·adj ·Alt. of Electro-metrical.
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Metric ton
·add. ·- A weight of 1,000 kilograms, or 2,204.6 pounds avoirdupois.
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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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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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solar system
The sun, planets, and comets, which are assumed to form a system, independent of the surrounding fix...
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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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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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