Thermometers are instruments formeasuring temperature by the contraction or expansion of fluids in enclosed tubes.
The graduated glass furnished with each instrument should stand quite level when measuring the rain, and the reading be taken midway between the two apparent surfaces of the water.
A scale of inches, measured from a zero point taken near the bend of the tube, furnishes the means of measuring the long and short columns.
In one of these tombs was also inclosed a monolithic sarcophagus of white marble of the form called anthropoid and measuring 2.
In one such instance 10 sheets, measuring in all only 6 ft.
The core between the holes was then clipped out and large canisters measuring 2 ft.
At this time a double eastern chapel measuring about 21 ft.
While they sat there conversing in this metre and that, measuring quotations, lo!
As the sun casteth shade, night showeth star, We, measuring what we were by what we are, Behold the depth to which we are undone.
It is experience alone that can rectify this mistake; and it is by constantly measuring with the hand, and removing from one place to another, that children obtain ideas of distance and magnitude.
Originally it would seem to have been customary when measuring cloth to mark the end of each yard by placing the thumb on the cloth at the end of the clothyard, and starting again on the other side of the thumb.
The spider was a hairy fellow, with a body two inches long, and eight legs measuring seven inches each, from end to end.
Quite recently Professor Newcomb has found out a way of measuring the sun's distance by the velocity of its light.
He describes the eggs as being grayish-white with a pale greenish tinge, and measuring 61.
Relative antiquity of the birds might be ascertained by measuring their ecologic adaptations.
It consists of a heavy stone, sometimes wrapped in leather, attached by a sinew thong about two inches in length, to the end of a stout leather-covered handle, measuring nearly two feet.
Arrows are of two kinds, 'one short and light for killing game, and the other a war-shaft measuring a cloth-yard in length.
Within their domain, from the north-west to the south-east, may be drawn a straight line measuring over four thousand miles in length.
And here we may once for all notice the three distinct periods mentioned by Daniel, asmeasuring the duration of the Roman empire, the Romish apostacy, and as they bear upon the promised and desirable millennium.
It is of the same import as Zechariah's "measuring line.
The effect is most striking; the accuracy of measurement exceeds that of any other method of measuring such displacements, and it seems that with a long interval of time the advantage of the method increases.
Clocks of a sort had been made, but Tycho Brahe found them so unreliable that he seldom used them, and many of his position-measurements were made bymeasuring the angular distances from known stars.
The superiority of the heliometer over all other devices (except photography) for measuring small angles has been specially brought into prominence by Sir David Gill's researches on the distance of the sun--i.
On measuring the velocity of a star in the line of sight at frequent intervals, periodic variations have been found, leading to a belief in motion round an invisible companion.
The geo-perceptive layer is experimentally localised by measuring the depth of intrusion of the probe for maximum deflection of galvanometric negativity.
The variation of normal rate of growth is also found by measuring successive growth records on a stationary plate at regular intervals, say of ten seconds, or from the flexure in the growth-curve taken on a moving plate (p.
Perhaps the most delicate method of measuring lengths is that afforded indirectly by the spectrum of a light.
The geo-perceptive layer may thus be experimentally localised bymeasuring the depth of intrusion of the probe for maximum deflection of galvanometric negativity.
It is possible, also, to determine the velocity at which these particles are moving by measuring the deflection produced by the magnetic field.
In 1838 Bessel announced from the Konigsberg observatory that he had succeeded, after months of effort, in detecting and measuring the parallax of a star.
Half the angle measuring this difference would be known as the sun's parallax.
In measuring work, it is customary to take as a unit the amount necessary to raise a certain weight at a specified place to a certain height against the force of gravity at that place.
In measuring heat (as distinguished from temperature) it is customary to take as a unit the quantity necessary to raise a given weight of water from one specified temperature to another.
Footnote 90: An instrument for measuring the blue of the atmosphere.
In the coffee room is a curious survival, a huge cupboard, or secret chamber, measuring about 10 ft.
In measuring the ingredients a quarter of a measure is always taken in excess, such as a seer [59] and a quarter for a seer of wheat, to foreshadow the perpetual increase of the family.
Obtaining a stick he cut it to the exact length of the footprint, or several such if a number of prints could be discovered, and followed the tracks, measuring the footprints, to the boundary of the village.
They could fashion pinhead cameras and three-gram electroscopes or balances capable of measuring the pressure of electronic impacts.
But," declared Stutsman, "there are ways of measuringhow far a star is away from any point, measuring both the distance and the size of the star.
I have no accurate way of measuring distances and angles simultaneously and accurately.
I hope you will not get, from what I have said, an idea that I am measuring the success of my efforts by material advancement.
Two boys are filling three washers with bed-linen, and in another apartment two girls are weighing and measuring materials to make more soap to add to the boxes standing in the soap-room.
And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate.
And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon the hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha, 31:40.
And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
And behold there was a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a handbreadth: and he measured the breadth of the building one reed, and the height one reed.
And towards the south he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate that looked toward the east: and he measured it on every side round about.
And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand.
And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
The situation is similar to that of the masons, whose function has also been performed for thousands of years, and yet which did not find a real adaptation to the psychical factors until a systematic time-measuring study was introduced.
For instance, we begin with simple over and over stitches, measuring the time and the character of the right hand movements for 50 stitches under a variety of technical conditions.
Mrs. Gilbert paused again, and it was evident that though she was concealing nothing she was measuringher words carefully in order not to give a false impression.
