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(Photog.) An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera. Knight.

The dung of deer. B. Jonson.

The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long. Swift.

Fumitory. [Obs.]

Same as Galactometer.

quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle. Differential galvanometer. See under Differental, a. -- Sine galvanometer, Cosine galvanometer, Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer in which the sine, cosine, or tangent respectively, of the angle through which the needle is deflected, is p…

Of, pertaining to, or measured by, a galvanometer.

The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.

hich unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilizatio…

that generation or phase which bears sex organs. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.…

An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.

Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.

The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician. I. Watts.

Pertaining to geometry. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.

According to the rules or laws of geometry.

One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.

Pertaining or belonging to the Geometridæ.