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Definition of Filings
1. filing [n] - See also: filing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filings
Literary usage of Filings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1805)
"In the way the experiment were made touching takes place two ways, viz. the filings
The metallic come in contaci with the metal plate ..."
2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1846)
"M. Righini has discovered that they may be preserved for any length of time, by
reducing the filings to fine powder and mixing them with an equal quantity ..."
3. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1878)
"If, for example, an ordinary bar-magnet be plunged in iron-filings, ... The middle
portion, to which the filings refuse to adhere, is called neutral. Fig. ..."
4. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1850)
"Iron filings or other ferruginous bodies, which are free to obey the action of
a magnetic bar, naturally arrange themselves in curve lines from one pole of ..."
5. Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday (1855)
"Delineation nf Lines of Magnetic Force by iron filings. 3234. It would be a
voluntary and unnecessary abandonment of most valuable aid, ..."
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