To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amountof business, labor, or duty to.
Statute labor, a definite amount of labor required for the public service in making roads, bridges, etc.
We have to see, first, how demand fixes the price of a definite amount of anything which is offered for sale and, later, how the quantity offered is controlled.
In saying this we assume one fact which we undertake later to prove; namely, that there is a definite amount of each product which can be attributed to labor alone as its producer.
Calorific Value--Each combustible element of gas will combine with oxygen in certain definite proportions and will generate a definite amount of heat, measured in B.
Air Required for Combustion--It has already been shown that each combustible element in fuel will unite with a definite amount of oxygen.
When complete combustion takes place, as already pointed out, the carbon in the fuel unites with a definite amount of oxygen to form CO{2}.
The bomb is then placed in the calorimeter, which has been filled with a definite amount of water.
A definite amount of its original rotatory energy is now stored in the central spring and also in the radial springs.
Whatever may be its position at any instant, each mass is possessed of a definite amount of energy corresponding to that position; this amount will always be equal to the total energy abstracted by that mass, less the energy returned.
For the purpose of illustration, let it be assumed that the pendulum is an isolated and conservative system endowed with a definite amount of rotatory energy.
The people seem like citizens of a beleaguered town, who know they have but a definite amount of bread, yet have made up their minds to act while it lasts as if there were no such thing as starvation.
Recourse was had to the determination of moisture by the absolute method, in that a definite amount of air is caused to pass over pumice-stone saturated with sulphuric acid.
Since the piston must move in steam-tight contact with the cylinder, it must have a definite amount of friction with the sides of the cylinder by whatever means it may be packed.
It is known in physics, that when a vacuum is produced, surrounding bodies have a tendency to rush into it with a definite amount of force.
Thus, if an engine exerts a certain power in driving a mill, in drawing a carriage on a road, or in propelling a vessel on water, the resistance against which it has to act must be equal to a definite amount of weight.
There appears to be a definite amount of matter in the visible universe, a definite number of molecules and atoms.
In this position the photograph receives a definite amount of light from the candle and has a certain brightness.
The quantity of heat necessary to change the temperature of a definite amount of air is easy of calculation.
This is known as the heat of vaporization and represents a definite amount of heat that is used up whenever water is changed into vapor.
No matter what its temperature may be--whether hot or cold--when water is vaporized, a definite amount of heat is required to change the water into vapor.
In practice the furnace is built in sizes, to heat a definite amount of cubical space.
It has been found that the crystals of many compounds, although perfectly dry, give up a definite amount of water when heated, the substance at the same time losing its crystalline form.
The easiest way to measure a quantity of heat is to note how warm it will make a definite amount of a given substance chosen as a standard.
How would the volume of a definite amount of carbon monoxide compare with the volume of carbon dioxide formed by its combustion, the measurements being made under the same conditions?
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