Sir John Herschel also designed an instrument for observing the heating power of the sun’s rays in a given time, to which the title Actinometer is given.
Physics) Defn: An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
Gas meter, an instrument for recording the quantity of gas consumed in a given time, at a particular place.
To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
Each player then puts the letters forming "govern" in a line down the paper, and the object of the game is to find, in a given time, words beginning with each of those letters.
Each player then, for a given time, writes on the subject allotted to him, more or less in the manner of the daily press, and at the end the result is read aloud by the editor.
A letter is chosen, say T, and for a given time, ten minutes perhaps, the players write down as many names of animals beginning with T as they can think of.
By voluntary contract they engaged to work a given time to pay for their passage.
By voluntary contract they engaged to work for their purchasers a given time to pay for their passage.
Here, a license system is in vogue, giving concessions to exploit limited areas for a given time, at an annual rent of less than one cent, per acre per year.
The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Such cases occur when the bodies traversed by the current are bad conductors, or when the quantity of electricity evolved or transmitted in a given time is very small.
I may personate the richly provided widow of Allan Armadale of Thorpe Ambrose, if I can count on Allan Armadale's death in a given time.
It is to be done, if I can count on Allan Armadale's death in a given time.
I thought a contract was the sort of a thing a builder signs when he promises to have the workmen out of the house in a given time, and when the time comes (as my poor mother used to say) the workmen never go.
The nourishment which must be supplied in a given time to different plants, in order to admit a free and unimpeded growth, is very unequal.
The consumption of oxygen in a given time may be expressed by the number of respirations; it is, therefore, obvious that in the same animal the quantity of nourishment required must vary with the force and number of respirations.
In enormous numbers of cases we do thus judge of a surface seen at a given time that it is thus perceptibly different in size, or in shape, or in colour, from what it was when we saw it before.
In war, for instance it is held that one army is justified in trying to give the enemy a false idea as to where it will be at a given time.
Distances can also be measured by time when we have previously ascertained over how many yards we walk or ride in a given time.
In every household, within a given time, ladies like Madame de Fischtaminel become Caroline's main resource.
This may be defined as the quantity of electricity which passes through a conductor in a given time--or, electricity in the act of being discharged, or electricity in motion.
The quantity of an ion liberated in a given time is proportional to the quantity of electricity that has passed through the voltameter[10] in that time.
He says: "The value of a property is its estimated worth at a given time, measured in money, taking into account all the elements which add to its usefulness or desirability as a business or profit-earning proposition.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "given time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
