Crossword-Solution: PLANIMETER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Planimeter | n. | An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer. |
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| Instrument measuring surface area of a plane figure | 1 answer |
| an instrument for measuring area of plane figures | 1 answer |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PLANIMETER (5)
Such instruments do not, as a rule, represent their results graphically, and we may take, as characteristic examples of them, Amsler's planimeter and some of the sphere integrating machines.
For comparative purposes I have measured the areas of circles of 1 inch, 2 inches, and 3 inches radius, the guide being taken round the circumference by means of a "control lineal," first with an ordinary Amsler's planimeter and then with the integraph.
Radius | | By |--------+--------+--------+-------- of | Calculated |Planimeter.| | Upper | | Upper circle.
Excluding such cases, we see that the accuracy of the integraph scarcely falls behind that of the planimeter and is quite efficient for practical purposes.
The scale on the present instrument is very inconvenient, as it is often almost out of sight; the curve it draws, on the other hand, I consider very satisfactory, when the pencil is loaded, say, with a planimeter weight.