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Home Dictionary Name: gunters scaleGunters 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...
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...
Gunters 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...
Scale of Costs
Scale of Costs. By Rules made by Order in Council, dated the 12th August, 1875, a new scale of costs for the Supreme Court was provided, and these Rules were reenacted in 1883. There is a higher and a lower scale, applicable respectively to the matters specified in the Rules; but costs on the higher scale 'may be allowed . . . if on special grounds arising out of the nature and importance or the difficulty or urgency of the case, the Court or a judge shall . . so order' (Ord. LXV., r. 9). Scales of costs are also provided by the County Court Rules: the respective scales are applicable according to the amount recovered or in dispute, or the nature of the proceedings. See COSTS....
Pay and pay scale
Pay and pay scale, are conceptually different connotations. Pay is essentially a consideration for the services rendered by an employee and is the remuneration which is payable to him. Remuneration is the recurring payment for services rendered during the tenure of employment. Pay and salary are necessarily not interchangeable concepts. Their meanings vary depending upon the provision providing for them. Pay means the amount drawn monthly by a Government servant as - (i) the pay, other than special pay or pay granted in view of his personal qualifications, which has been sanctioned for a post held by him substantively or in an officiating capacity, or to which he is entitled by reasons of his position is a cadre, and (ii) overseas pay, special pay and personal pay, and (iii) any other emoluments which may be specially classed as pay by the president.' A pay scale has different stages starting with initial pay and ending with ceiling pay. Each stage in the scale is commonly referred to ...
major diatonic scale
The natural diatonic scale which has semitones between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth notes and whole tones between the other notes the scale of the major mode of which the third is major also called major scale See Scale and Diatonic...
Scaling
Adapted for removing scales as from a fish as a scaling knife adapted for removing scale as from the interior of a steam boiler as a scaling hammer bar etc...
Current official scale of rates
Current official scale of rates, the expression 'current' means 'vogue' or 'prevalent'; and 'current rate' may mean the rate obtaining at a particular time or at a future time or from time to time. The terms goes well with the present, future and recurrent, the words 'current official' scale of rates' in para IV of the agreement mean the official scale of rates current or prevalent from time to time during the currency of the agreement, Gopisetti Venkatratmam v. Vijayawada Municipality, AIR 1966 SC 353 (354, 355): (1965) 3 SCR 276. [Electricity Act, (9 of 1910), s. 21(2)]...
Industrial concern in small-scale sector
Industrial concern in small-scale sector, 'industrial concern in small-scale sector' means an industrial concern as defined in clause (c) of s. 2 of Industrial Development Bank of India Act, 1964 (18 of 1964), and which is regarded as a small-scale undertaking under s. 11B of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951). [Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989 (39 of 1989), s. 2(h)]...
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