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That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.

A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.…

An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

erve its horizontal position. -- Surveyor's compass, an instrument used in surveying for measuring horizontal angles. See Circumferentor. -- Variation compass, a compass of delicate construction, used in observations on the variations of the needle. -- To fetch a compass, to make a circuit.

An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.

An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.

The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.

rock. Raymond. Contact level, a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.

An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.

The art of measuring the world or the universe. Blount.

An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

The art or act of measuring skulls.

A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

One who, or that which, crushes. Crusher gauge, an instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.

The art of measuring crystals.

nt; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. Current meter, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents. -- Current mill, a mill driven by a current wheel. -- Current wheel, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide.…

An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.

The art of measuring circles.

A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine. Knight.

Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders.