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LOGOMETRIC a.
Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric. [R.]
LONGIMETRY n.
The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. Cheyne.
LUCIMETER n.
an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.
LYSIMETER n.
An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
MACROMETER n.
An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.
MAGNETOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.
MAGNETOMETRIC a.
ing to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.
MAHOMEDAN; MAHOMETAN n.
See Mohammedan.
MAHOMETANISM n.
See Mohammedanism.
MAHOMETANIZE v.
To convert to the religion of Mohammed; to Mohammedanize.
MAHOMETISM n.
See Mohammedanism.
MAHOMETIST n.
A Mohammedan. [R.]
MAHOMETRY n.
Mohammedanism. [Obs.]
MAHUMETAN; MAHUMETANISM n.
See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.
MALAMETHANE n.
A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.
MAMMET n.
An idol; a puppet; a doll. [Obs.] Selden. Shak.
MAMMETRY n.
See Mawmetry. [Obs.]
MANOMETER n.
r or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump.
MANOMETRIC; MANOMETRICAL a.
Of or pertaining to the manometer; made by the manometer.
MAUMET n.
See Mawmet. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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