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A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.

A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.

rwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works. Monogram.

See Monogrammic.

Monogrammic.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a monogram.

Monogrammic.

See Muscle curve, under Muscle.

A metric weight, consisting of ten thousand grams or ten kilograms. It is equal to 22.046 lbs. avoirdupois.

n was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no real exceptions. --Ne`o*gram*mat"ic*al (#), a.

See Letter, above.

The record of an ondograph.

An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography.

An autographic record made by an oscillograph.

A pun. Puns, which he calls paragrams. Addison.

A punster.

or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. Parallelogram of velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and direction, when the vel…

Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.

Having the properties of a parallelogram. [R.]

A pentacle or a pentalpha. "Like a wizard pentagram." Tennyson.