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Definition of Planimeters
1. planimeter [n] - See also: planimeter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Planimeters
Literary usage of Planimeters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"planimeters based on this principle might therefore be called polar planimeters.
But as this name has been appropriated for an altogether different type, ..."
2. Power Plant Testing: A Manual of Testing Engines, Turbines, Boilers, Pumps by James Ambrose Moyer (1911)
"The most accurate and generally approved method for obtaining the area of irregular
figures is by means of integrating instruments called planimeters. ..."
3. Power Plant Testing: A Manual of Testing Engines, Turbines, Boilers, Pumps by James Ambrose Moyer (1913)
"planimeters. The most accurate and generally approved method of obtaining the
area of irregular figures is by means of integrating instruments called ..."
4. The Polar Planimeter and Its Use in Engineering Calculations: Together with by Joseph Yendes Wheatley, Wheatley J. Y. (Joseph Yendes) (1908)
"THEORY OF planimeters IN GENERAL. While a full discussion of the general theory of
... Various attempts to classify the different forms of planimeters, ..."
5. Experimental Engineering and Manual for Testing by Rolla Clinton Carpenter, Herman Diederichs (1911)
"Forms of Polar planimeters. — Polar planimeters are made in two forms: i.
With length of tracing arm PA, Fig. 10, fixed. 2. With length of tracing arm PA ..."
6. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"planimeters. These determine the area of any figure, whether bounded by ...
(For descriptions and theory of planimeters, see "Mechanical Integrators," by ..."
7. Experimental Engineering and Manual for Testing: For Engineers and for by Rolla Clinton Carpenter, Herman Diederichs (1911)
"Then for the different planimeters we have the following equations: Lineal ...
Special planimeters. —These, much more complicated than those described, ..."
8. Audels Gas Engine Manual: A Practical Treatise Relating to the Theory and (1908)
"planimeters. These instruments are used for automatically measuring the areas of
irregular figures on a piano surface. They are made in a number of forms, ..."
9. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"planimeters based on this principle might therefore be called polar planimeters.
But as this name has been appropriated for an altogether different type, ..."
10. Power Plant Testing: A Manual of Testing Engines, Turbines, Boilers, Pumps by James Ambrose Moyer (1911)
"The most accurate and generally approved method for obtaining the area of irregular
figures is by means of integrating instruments called planimeters. ..."
11. Power Plant Testing: A Manual of Testing Engines, Turbines, Boilers, Pumps by James Ambrose Moyer (1913)
"planimeters. The most accurate and generally approved method of obtaining the
area of irregular figures is by means of integrating instruments called ..."
12. The Polar Planimeter and Its Use in Engineering Calculations: Together with by Joseph Yendes Wheatley, Wheatley J. Y. (Joseph Yendes) (1908)
"THEORY OF planimeters IN GENERAL. While a full discussion of the general theory of
... Various attempts to classify the different forms of planimeters, ..."
13. Experimental Engineering and Manual for Testing by Rolla Clinton Carpenter, Herman Diederichs (1911)
"Forms of Polar planimeters. — Polar planimeters are made in two forms: i.
With length of tracing arm PA, Fig. 10, fixed. 2. With length of tracing arm PA ..."
14. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"planimeters. These determine the area of any figure, whether bounded by ...
(For descriptions and theory of planimeters, see "Mechanical Integrators," by ..."
15. Experimental Engineering and Manual for Testing: For Engineers and for by Rolla Clinton Carpenter, Herman Diederichs (1911)
"Then for the different planimeters we have the following equations: Lineal ...
Special planimeters. —These, much more complicated than those described, ..."
16. Audels Gas Engine Manual: A Practical Treatise Relating to the Theory and (1908)
"planimeters. These instruments are used for automatically measuring the areas of
irregular figures on a piano surface. They are made in a number of forms, ..."
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