Crossword-Solution: METRON
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| METRON | anagram | MENTOR, MERTON, MONTER, MONTRE |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| MEASURE (Gk.) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the
sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the
daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
Hint 2 anagram
RAC
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Sentences with METRON (5)
Furthermore, _mercury_ is one of the things most susceptible of this action of heat and cold, and we have had recourse to it accordingly, in the construction of the _thermometer_, [Footnote: _Thermometer_ comes from two Greek words: _thermos_, heat; and _metron_, measure.
III._ _Of proportion in measure._ Meeter and measure is all one, for what the Greekes call [Greek: metron], the Latines call _Mensura_, and is but the quantitie of a verse, either long or short.
That whether, as was indicated by the author of [Greek: Metron ariston], we pronounce the anapæst _p[)a]t[)u]læ_, precisely as we pronounce the dactyle _T[=i]t[)y]r[)e]_, or draw a distinction between them is also indifferent.
METRIC, met'rik, _adj._ quantitative.--_adj._ MET'RICAL, pertaining to measurement.--_n.pl._ MET'RICS, the theory of measurement.--_ns._ MET'ROGRAPH, an apparatus for registering the speed of a railway-train and the places and duration of stops; METROL'OGY, the science of weights and measures; MET'RONOME, an instrument like an inverted pendulum which measures musical time.--_adj._ METRONOM'IC.--_n._ METRON'OMY, measurement of time by a metronome.
Herr Liest hastened to Washington, accompanied by Julius Kopf, a beer-selling socialist, Petrovitch Metron, a dynamite “professor,” and many other equally malignant anarchists.