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Definition of Comparator
1. n. An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.
Definition of Comparator
1. Noun. Any device for comparing a physical property of two objects, or an object with a standard. ¹
2. Noun. An electronic device that compares two voltages, currents or streams of data. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comparator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comparator
Literary usage of Comparator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"For mineral fragments or crystals around the periphery of a rock slice, this
refractometer may be used as a comparator, since the wedge covers but half the ..."
2. Laboratory Physics: A Students Manual for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Dayton Clarence Miller (1903)
"LENGTH WITH THE comparator Compare a steel meter with a standard meter at each
... The comparator. — An apparatus for facilitating the comparison of two ..."
3. Laboratory Physics: A Students Manual for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Dayton Clarence Miller (1903)
"LENGTH WITH THE comparator Compare a steel meter with a standard meter at each
... The comparator. — An apparatus for facilitating the comparison of two ..."
4. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1914)
"For mineral fragments or crystals around the periphery of a rock slice, this
refractometer may be used as a comparator, since the wedge covers but half the ..."
5. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"comparator Voltmeter. — A convenient device for determining the ratio and the
phase angle of a potential transformer is the so-called comparator voltmeter, ..."
6. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"A NEW comparator. By ALVIN J. Cox. (From tine Chemical Division, ... says that
in the construction of a comparator the following things must be taken into ..."
7. Gages, Gaging and Inspection: A Comprehensive Treatise Covering the Limit by Douglas Thomas Hamilton (1918)
"Hartman Automatic comparator. — The Hartman automatic comparator which is ...
Hartman's Automatic comparator of gages of the same type which are made by ..."
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