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Same as Homolographic.

One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.

Possessing the property of homography.

ing on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic.

lations of parts, especially as to size and form; maintaining relative proportion. Homolographic projection, a method of constructing geographical charts or maps, so that the surfaces, as delineated on a plane, have the same relative size as the real surfaces; that is, so that the relative actual areas of the different…

An account of the hours. Chaucer.

A maker of clocks, watches, or dials.

Of or pertaining to horologiography. Chambers.

The art of constructing clocks or dials; horography.

An instrument for tracing designs on glass.

Art of writing or engraving on glass.

One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle.

Of or relating to hydrography.

The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.

An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

See Hydropathy.

A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth.

Of or pertaining to to hyetography.

The branch of physical science which treats of the geographical distribution of rain.