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In a metrical manner.

By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations.

In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.

According to the rules or laws of geometry.

In a thermometrical manner; by means of a thermometer.

Not symmetrically.

Diametrically opposite. His antipodal shadow." Lowell.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.

upposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.

uction of an equation (Math.), the drawing of such lines and figures as will represent geometrically the quantities in the equation, and their relations to each other. -- Construction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men and materials for construction or repairs.

g, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.

Diagonal; diametrical; hence; diametrically opposed. [Obs.] Sin can have no tenure by law at all, but is rather an eternal outlaw, and in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere. Milton.

Diametrically.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; -- opposed to heterogangliate.

the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope an…

ear 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 replaced by a function of the first degree in the new variable.

ern (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff symmetrically disposed.

rranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.