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Definition of Diadroms
1. diadrom [n] - See also: diadrom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diadroms
Literary usage of Diadroms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"... think; here the spirituality of the a philosophical foot one-third of a Supreme
Power is argued for, on pendulum, whose diadroms, in the account of the ..."
2. The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes by John Locke (1824)
"... a philosophical foot -j. of a pendulum, whose diadroms, in the latitude of 45
degrees, are each equal to one second of time, or TrV of a minute. ..."
3. The Necessary Existence of God by William Honyman Gillespie (1843)
"... whose diadroms, in the latitude of 45 degrees, are each equal to " one second
of time, or one sixtieth of a minute. I have affectedly made " use of this ..."
4. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Books II and IV (with Omissions) by John Locke (1905)
"... an inch one-tenth of a philosophical foot, a philosophical foot one-third of
a pendulum, whose diadroms, in the latitude of forty-five degrees, ..."
5. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Author's Last Additions by John Locke (1828)
"... a line one-tenth of an inch, an inch one-tenth of a philosophical foot, a
philosophical foot one-third of a pendulum, whose diadroms, in the latitude of ..."
6. The Philosophical Works of John Locke by John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1892)
"... an inch one-tenth of a philosophical foot, a philosophical foot one-third of
a pendulum, whose diadroms, in the latitude of forty-five degrees, ..."
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