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tandem
tandem, adv. [tam and the demonstr. termination dem; prop. just so far; hence, transf. to time, afte...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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tandem
tandem adv. tam+the demonstr. ending dem, at length, at last, in the end, finally : Tan...
An Elementary Latin Dictionary
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Tandem
·noun A team of horses harnessed one before the other.
II. Tandem ·add. ·noun A tandem bicycle or o...
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tandem
A two-wheeled chaise, buggy, or noddy, drawn by two horses, one before the other: that is, AT LENGTH...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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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Tandem cart
·add. ·- A kind of two-wheeled vehicle with seats back to back, the front one somewhat elevated.
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Tandem engine
·add. ·- A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod.
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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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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...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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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