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Definition of Graduations
1. graduation [n] - See also: graduation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graduations
Literary usage of Graduations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plane Surveying: A Text-book and Pocket Manual by John Clayton Tracy (1907)
"In the first part are shown sever*! different graduations of the limb, ...
Limb graduations. The limb of the transit is always divided into 360°, ..."
2. Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing ...edited by Henry V. Opperman, Tina G. Butcher edited by Henry V. Opperman, Tina G. Butcher (1995)
"graduations shall be so varied in length that they may be conveniently read. ...
In any series of graduations, the width of a graduation shall in no case be ..."
3. The Theory and Practice of Surveying: Designed for the Use of Surveyors and by John Butler Johnson (1904)
"To make the Diameter through the Zero-graduations lie in the Plane of the ...
The two hairs and the two zero-graduations should then be seen to lie in the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Natural Gas Association of America by Natural Gas Association of America, Meeting (1916)
"The feed screw was provided with twenty threads per inch and the graduated hand
wheel with fifty equal graduations thus making it possible to obtain ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1850)
"Medical graduations at Edinburgh—The Senatus Academicus of the University of
Edinburgh conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine on the following gentlemen ..."
6. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"Micrometer graduations the thimble. If the two zero lines match two lines on the
thimble, the measurement is in even thousandths as at B which reads .250. ..."
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