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A galvanometer in which current is measured by torsion.

Of or pertaining to trigonometry; performed by the rules of trigonometry. --Trig`o*no*met"ric*al*ly, adv. Trigonometrical curve, a curve one of whose coördinates is a trigonometric function of the other. -- Trigonometrical function. See under Function. -- Trigonometrical lines, lines which are employed in solving the…

arts other required parts, and also of the general relations which exist between the trigonometrical functions of arcs or angles.

Consisting of three terms; of or pertaining to trinomials; as, a trinomial root.

Trinomial.

A uranometry.

A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.

A small hydrometer for determining the specific gravity of urine.

The estimation of the specific gravity of urine by the urinometer.

a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging. Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites. Milton.

Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.

An instrument for determining the strength or purity of wine by measuring its density.

Face; countenance. [Colloq.] Spenser. Lamb.

An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.

The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc. [R.] Saintsbury.

A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.

The laws animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.

ement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.