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A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.

A measure of area, the tenth part of an are; ten square meters.

The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer.

Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.

Pertaining to a diameter; diametrical. Diametral curve, Diametral surface (Geom.), any line or surface which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve or surface. -- Diametral planes (Crystal.), planes in which two of the axes lie.

Of or pertaining to a diameter.

The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area. Tait.

equally upon the same products imported from different countries. -- Differential galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer having two coils or circuits, usually equal, through which currents passing in opposite directions are measured by the difference of their effect upon the needle. -- Differential gearing, a train of…

One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

ither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. -- Diminished, or Diminishing, scale, a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut with a con…

system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

Pertaining to a dynameter.

A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.

Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.

The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.

Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.

elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.