Crossword-Solution: MICROMETER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Micrometer | n. | An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “MICROMETER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INSTRUMENT for measuring angular distances | 1 answer |
| INSTRUMENT for measuring small objects | 1 answer |
| Instrument for measuring precise dimensions of small distances | 1 answer |
| Precision instrument | 1 answer |
| Tiny distance measure | 1 answer |
| an instrument for measuring very small distances | 1 answer |
| IMPLEMENT for measuring | 11 answers |
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Sentences with MICROMETER (5)
The 1875 piece was a hair thinner than the other coins, but neither Clayton nor Spider could have detected it without the aid of a micrometer.
Bifilar micrometer (often called a bifilar), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; Ð more commonly called a filar micrometer.
Charles Batchelor, repeated Edison's remarkable experiments of the winter of 1875 for the benefit of a great number of European savants, using with other apparatus the original "dark box" with micrometer adjustment.] There is not the slightest intention on the part of the authors to detract in the least degree from the brilliant work of Hertz, but, on the contrary, to ascribe to him the honor that is his due in having given mathematical direction and certainty to so important a discovery.
This is ascertained by means of a micrometer screw, S, which moves a needle, T, in front of the dial.
Huygens was one of the first to adapt the micrometer to the telescope--a mechanical device on which all the nice determination of minute distances depends.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1993–2007).