Words are often the most convenient indices of education, of cultivation, and of intellectual power.
What means, methods, and indices exist aside from the traditional examination?
It has no indices or springs, and its indications are by the column of Mercury only.
The instrument is set for observation by bringing the indices into contact with the mercury, by means of a small magnet, which attracts the steel through the glass, so that it is readily drawn up or down.
The entanglement of a small portion of mercury with the indices is sometimes a source of annoyance in this instrument, for the readings are thereby rendered somewhat incorrect.
The two indices are terminated at top and bottom with a bead of glass, to enable them to move with the least possible friction, and without causing separation of the spirit, or allowing mercury to pass easily.
The principle of this thermometer is not altogether new; but the duplicate arrangement of the bars, which effectually prevents the movement of the indices by any shaking, and the application are certainly novel.
This combination of circumstances has given the Graptoloidea a paramount stratigraphical importance as palaeontological indices of the detailed sequence and correlation of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks in general.
As one rides over the desert in a rapidly moving train or automobile these vagaries of nature are sometimes very striking, because the speed of motion will make the effects of the varying refractive indices more marked.
Many modifications of these types are possible through variations in the refractive indices of various strata of air.
All these "osseous remains" belong to the palaeolithic period, and from the cranial indices it is thus clear that palaeolithic man was long-headed.
These expressions may reveal a vivid imagination, but they are no less valuable as indices of the child's nature on that account.
In the face of these divergent opinions, it is best to give the indices on the cranium and the living subject separately as they are, and indicate the rate of reduction or augmentation.
In this table will be found side by side with indices taken on the living subjects some taken on crania, but no series contains measurements of crania and heads intermingled.
In this manner we can discover one or severalindices around which the skulls are grouped in the largest number.
The annexed table gives the orbital indices of the principal populations of the globe.
However, in a general way, one may admit, and I admit in this book, the difference of two units between the indices of the cranium and the living subject.
The striking use to which Burgon put his own indices has been already noticed.
Translated from the German with large additions and fullindices by Rev.
The foundation, consisting of the warp and weft, receives but little consideration from purchasers; yet it is one of the most important indices of the quality of a rug, and its strength is one of the most necessary conditions for utility.
The nails furnish one of our best indices of the color of the blood and condition of the circulation.
These forms of expression are naturally not so frequent as those of the face, on account of the extraordinary importance of the great systems whose clock-dials and indices form what we term the human countenance.
Icebergs in certain cases afford interesting indices as to the motion of oceanic currents, which, though moving swiftly at a depth below the surface, do not manifest themselves on the plain of the sea.
He aims at recovering a clue to the esoteric no less than to the exoteric indices of past generations, and sees in each varied relic the product of human thought, invention, and intelligent design.
No wonder that it should be unnoticed by contemporary chroniclers, and remain a puzzle to historians who esteem wars and regal successions the sole indices of the past.
The title of this chapter, as of some others of those relating to British history prior to the first century of the Christian era, may perhaps appear to readers of indices as not a little presumptuous.
Measures of the indices of the refraction of solids.
Indices of transmission in terms of the principal indices.
Huyghens’ construction; measure of the ordinary and extraordinary indices of refraction; attractive and repulsive crystals; a ray falling perpendicularly does not always bifurcate in a camera with parallel faces, nor in a prism.
To the Paricishtas of the Samaveda belong the two indices called Arsha and Daivata, enumerating respectively the Rishis and deities of the text of the Naigeya branch of the Samaveda.
Two indices of the deities and composers of the Samaveda according to the Naigeya school have also been preserved, and indirectly supply information about the text of the Kauthuma recension.
These authorities are doubtless the metrical indices described above.
The cephalicindices of various Brahman classes in the Bombay Presidency, supplied by Sir H.
As shown in the subjoined table, which gives the indices corrected to actual skull-measurements by subtracting two units as proposed by M.
He found brachycephaly common in the New Hebrides, indices of 81, and even of 85, not being rare.
Placing all the indices in their order, I find that the value of the central of the series is 106.
Total, 21 In this table the indices range between 3.
As shown in the subjoined table, this series of 35 indices has a wide range between 69.
As confirmatory of the foregoing corrected measurements of the head of the living subject, I will add the indices of nine skulls procured amongst the eastern islands of the group.
Cephalic indices which have been reduced to actual skull-measurements by the subtraction of two units.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
