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Definition of Metrologist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metrologist
Literary usage of Metrologist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly by William Jay Youmans (1896)
"To those who have followed the history of this subject it is unnecessary to say
that for many years no metrologist has thought for a moment of relating the ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"ALLEN, Wiliiam Frederick, metrologist and editor, was born at Bordentown, NJ, Oct.
9, 1846, son of Joseph Warner and Sarah Burns (Norcross) Allen. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... that it was intended to have any exact measure. metrologist (met-rol'o-jist), ».
[< metrolog-y + -ist.] A student of or an expert in metrology. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... electrum coins on silver standards, while it was natura! to coin them on those
of gold, hence a variety of weight-systems perplexing to the metrologist. ..."
5. Revolution in Measurement: Western European Weights and Measures Since the by Ronald Edward Zupko (1990)
"... inspector of dikes, metrologist, and hydraulic engineer. In a monograph of
1585 entitled L 'Arithmetique de Sinon Stevin de Bruges, he established a ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1919)
"From the standpoint of the professional metrologist, the design of the Black
micrometer is interesting as an example of accuracy in some parts, ..."
7. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1892)
"... metrologist Epiphanios (c. a, 390) in HULTSCH, metrol. rom. 100 (cf. ib. 32).
464. Among the Christian poets of the time, the Spanish rhetorician ..."
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