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To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry. Nature geometrizeth, and observeth order in all things. Sir T. Browne.

A treatise on this science. Analytical, or Coördinate, geometry, that branch of mathematical analysis which has for its object the analytical investigation of the relations and properties of geometrical magnitudes. -- Descriptive geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the graphic solution of all problems invo…

A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.

See Gleucometer.

An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.

An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood.

An apparatus for determining the amount of sugar in diabetic urine.

, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes. Contact, or Hand, goniometer, a goniometer having two movable arms (ab, cd), between which (at ab) the faces of the crystals are placed. These arms turn about a fixed point, which is the center of the graduated circle or semicircle upon which the angle…

Pertaining to, or determined by means of, a goniometer; trigonometric.

The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.

A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.

(Physics) An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies.

Of or pertaining to measurement by weight; measured by weight. -- Grav"i*met"ric*al*ly, adv. Gravimetric analysis (Chem.), analysis in which the amounts of the coastituents are determined by weight; -- in distinction from volumetric analysis.

Same as Grommet.

A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.

A quotation mark. [R.]

An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

Same as Hemadrometer.

Same as Hemadrometry.

Same as Hemadynamometer.