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ich heat is produced in any part of an electric circuit is measured by the product of the square of the current into the resistance of that part of the circuit. If the current

A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth.

ng; to bound; to leap. Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square. Shak.

A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square. [South Africa]

A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief. He might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape. Shak. Her…

pending on the relative positions of the sun and moon. -- Lag screw, an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood; a screw for fastening lags.

length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

drawn from the sun to a planet are proportioned to the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times of revolution of two planets are in the ratio of the cubes of their mean distances. -- Law binding, a plain style of leather binding, used for law books; -- called also law calf. -- Law book, a book containi…

-- Lifting sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

nly: such is a number which represents one side of a plane figure. If the plane figure is square, the linear figure is called a root. -- Linear problem (Geom.), a problem which may be solved geometrically by the use of right lines alone. -- Linear transformation (Alg.), a change of variables where each variable is re…

A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.

A spiral whose polar equation is r2th = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.

A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.

A unit of light flux, being the flux through one square meter of surface the illumination of which is uniform and of unit brightness.

A flat-bottomed boat with a pointed prow and square stern, using oars or sails or both, used esp. on the upper Great Lakes and their tributaries.

ural or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle. The painter's magic skill. Cowper.

The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

itation or suggestion of quilting, the surface being marked by depressed lines which form squares or lozenges in relief; as, matelassé silks.

aking the mean value of the positive and negative errors without regard to sign. -- Mean-square error, or Error of the mean square (Math. Phys.), the error the square of which is the mean of the squares of all the errors; -- called also, especially by European writers, mean error. -- Mean line. (Crystallog.) Same as…