Gunters Quadrant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gunters quadrantGunters quadrant
A thin quadrant made of brass wood etc showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator By it are found the hour of the day the suns azimuth the altitude of objects in degrees etc See Gunters scale...
Gunters scale
A scale invented by the Rev Edmund Gunter 1581 1626 a professor of astronomy at Gresham College London who invented also Gunters chain and Gunters quadrant...
Quadrantal
Of or pertaining to a quadrant also included in the fourth part of a circle as quadrantal space...
Gunters chain
The chain ordinarily used in measuring land See Chain n 4 and Gunters scale...
Gunters line
A logarithmic line on Gunters scale used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers called also line of lines and line of numbers...
Quadrant
Quadrant, an angular measure of 90 degrees; an instrument used in astronomy and navigation for taking altitudes and angles....
Pelecoid
A figure somewhat hatched shaped bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants...
Gunter rig
A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast...
Log chip
A thin flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line called also log ship See 2d Log n 2...
Mural
Of or pertaining to a wall being on or in a wall growing on or against a wall as a mural quadrant...
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