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Peripheral

Of or pertaining to a periphery constituting a periphery peripheric...


Urban land

Urban land, means the land situated in such munici-pal area and the areas in the periphery there of as may be notified by the State Government and different limits of periphery areas may be notified for different classes of municipal areas. [Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 2003, s. 3(h)]Urban land, means, (i) any land situated within the limits of an urban agglomeration and referred to as such in the master plan; or (ii) In a case where there is no master plan, or where the master plan does not refer to any land as urban land, any and within the limits of an urban agglomeration and situated in any areas included within the local limits of a municipality (by whatever name called), a notified area committee, town area committee. A city and town committee, a small town committee, a cantonment board or a panchayat, but does not include any such land which is mainly used for the purpose of agriculture, Union of India v. Valluri Basavaiah Chowdhary, AIR 1979 SC 1415: (1979) 3 SCC 324: (1979) 3 S...


Blastosphere

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum...


Cam

A turning or sliding piece which by the shape of its periphery or face or a groove in its surface imparts variable or intermittent motion to or receives such motion from a rod lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it...


Centrifugal filter

A filter as for sugar in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action...


Clock

A machine for measuring time indicating the hour and other divisions in ordinary mechanical clocks for domestic or office use the time is indicated on a typically circular face or dial plate containing two hands pointing to numbers engraved on the periphery of the face thus showing the hours and minutes The works of a mechanical clock are moved by a weight or a spring and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell In electrical or electronic clocks the time may be indicated as on a mechanical clock by hands but may also be indicated by direct digital readout with the hours and minutes in normal Arabic numerals The readout using hands is often called analog to distinguish it from the digital readout Some clocks also indicate the seconds Clocks are not adapted like the watch to be carried on the person Specialized clocks such as atomic clocks may be constructed on different principles and may have a very high precision for use in scientific observa...


Contour

The outline of a figure or body or the line or lines representing such an outline the line that bounds periphery...


Hindleys screw

A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work It is named from the person who first used the form...


Mutoscope

A simple form of moving picture machine in which the series of views exhibiting the successive phases of a scene are printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight one after another and the blended effect gives a semblance of motion...


Periphery

The outside or superficial portions of a body the surface...


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