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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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385 words match “NOME”

NOME n. 3 definitions

A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.

of Nim. Chaucer.

NOMENCLATOR n. 2 definitions

One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names.

NOMENCLATRESS n.

A female nomenclator.

NOMENCLATURAL a.

Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

NOMENCLATURE n. 3 definitions

used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.

One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.

ACTINOMETER n. 2 definitions

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

ACTINOMETRIC a.

Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic.

ACTINOMETRY n. 2 definitions

The measurement of the force of solar radiation. Maury.

AGNOMEN n. 2 definitions

An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

ASTRONOMER n. 2 definitions

venly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.

An instrument to measure the growth of plants. Goodale.

One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

BAROCYCLONOMETER n.

An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.

CARBONOMETER n.

An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.

CHRONOMETER n. 3 definitions

A metronome. Box chronometer. See under Box. -- Pocket chronometer, a chronometer in the form of a large watch. -- To rate a chronometer. See Rate, v. t.

CHRONOMETRIC; CHRONOMETRICAL a.

Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.

An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.