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Home Dictionary Name: diameterEllipse
An oval or oblong figure bounded by a regular curve which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis and the least diameter is the minor axis See Conic section under Conic and cf Focus...
Gimbal
A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions or for suspending anything as a barometer ships compass chronometer etc so that it will remain plumb or level when its support is tipped as by the rolling of a ship It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first...
Ovaliform
Having the form of an egg having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval...
Sand
Sand, can be described in terms of both texture and composition. Textual attributes include size, size sorting, angularity, shape and surface texture of the grains. Grain size refers to the mean diameter of the grains and is usually determined by sieving. Grain size is directly related to the energy of velocity of the agent which transports the grains and is inversely related to the total distance of transport prior to deposition. Size sorting is a measure of the range in grain sizes within a given deposit of sand. Poorly-sorted sands contain grains of many different sizes within the sand-size range; well-sorted sand have only a narrow range of particle diameters. The best-sorted sands are those transported by agents of law viscosity and de-posited very slowly, McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology (6th Edn.)Sand, is a product of abrasion or breakdown of older parent or source rocks, (Concise Oxford Diction-ary) see also Goa Foundation, Goa v. Diksha Holdings Pvt. Ltd., (...
Belgian block
A nearly cubical block of some tough stone esp granite used as a material for street pavements Its usual diameter is 5 to 7 inches...
Biparietal
Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium from one parietal fossa to the other...
Breadfruit
The fruit of a tree Artocarpus incisa found in the islands of the Pacific esp the South Sea islands It is of a roundish form from four to six or seven inches in diameter and when baked somewhat resembles bread and is eaten as food whence the name...
Calipers
An instrument usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies as of work shaped in a lathe or planer timber masts shot etc or the bore of firearms tubes etc called also caliper compasses or caliber compasses...
Chokebore
In a shotgun a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance usually 212 to 3 inches to the rear of the muzzle in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot...
close grained
dense or compact in structure or texture as a wood composed of small diameter cells...
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