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A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or…

value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire.

That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys. Geodetic surveying, geod…

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion. Locke.

ed; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury. Ten days the prophet in suspense remained. Denham. Upon the ticklish balance of suspense. Cowper.

Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.

ns (Physiol.), those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.

Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.

oath to share together good and bad fortune; hence, faithful friends. -- Sworn enemies, determined or irreconcilable enemies. -- Sworn friends, close friends.

Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive. Bp. Rust. -- Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.

A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.

microscope or telescope, by requiring a certain degree of excellence in the instrument to determine its existence or its peculiar texture or markings. -- Test paper. (a) (Chem.) Paper prepared for use in testing for certain substances by being saturated with a reagent which changes color in some specific way when acte…

silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation. Testing machine (Engin.), a machine used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron, stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.

An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.

ions existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

t for measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current.