Lexicographical Neighbors of Limmas
Literary usage of Limmas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Physics by William Watson (1911)
"Hence a major and a minor tone are very nearly the same, while each of these is
very nearly equal to the interval of two limmas, since two limmas are equal ..."
2. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"It is easy to see, that no system of mean tones and limmas will give the same
music on every key, unless the tones be increased, and the limmas diminished, ..."
3. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone (1805)
"... and limmas, are the only true theoretical elements ot ... and equal limmas., is
now generally adopted in tuning the piano-forte ; and, ..."
4. The British Critic: A New Review (1805)
"We are ready to allow, that a chromatic feries of equal tones, and equal limmas,
is now generally adopted in-tuning'the piano-forte ; and, ..."
5. An Analysis of the Principles of Natural Philosophy by Matthew Young (1811)
"... divided into five mean tones, and two limmas, each limma exceeding an ...
The limmas alfo are equal by construction. 30. ..."
6. Aquatic Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditches by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1918)
"... cerato h ll1 named limmas ... It is limmas annulatus. The distance between
the ridges varies in different specimens. ..."
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