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e, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc.

Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it.

Measurement of distances by the odometer.

The C.G.S. unit of magnetic reluctance or resistance, equal to the reluctance of a centimeter cube of air (or vacuum) between parallel faces. Also, a reluctance in which unit magnetomotive force sets up unit flux.

4.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm. Ohm's law (Elec.), the statement of the fact that the strength or intensity of an electrical current is directly proportional to the electro-motive force, and inversely p…

An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.

Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.

Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.

ating-current wave forms or other electrical oscillations, usually consisting of a galvanometer with strong field, in which the mass of the moving part is very small and frequency of vibration very high. -- Os`cil*lo*graph"ic (#), a.

An instrument for recording the height of the liquid in an endosmometer or for registering osmotic pressures.

The study of osmose by means of the osmometer.

lsive action produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the radoimeter. W. Crookes.

form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.

side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter.

A churchyard or cemetery. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss. Fool's paradise. See under Fool, and Limbo. -- Grains of paradise. (Bot.) See Melequeta pepper, under Pepper. -- Paradise bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Bird of paradise. Among the most beautiful species are the superb (Lophorina superba); the magnificent (Diphyllodes magnifica); a…

Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer.

Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.

clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.

mmediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate. Center of percussion. See under Center. -- Percussion bullet, a bullet containing a substance which is exploded by percussion; an explosive bullet. -- Percussion cap, a small copper cap or…

ix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee, point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed; perispherical, quite spherical.