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Definition of Spherometer
1. Noun. A measuring instrument for measuring the curvature of a surface.
Definition of Spherometer
1. n. An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.
Definition of Spherometer
1. Noun. A device used to measure the curvature of a surface, such as a lens. ¹
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Definition of Spherometer
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Medical Definition of Spherometer
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spherometer
Literary usage of Spherometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Physical Manipulation by Edward Charles Pickering (1884)
"spherometer. Apparatus. Two lenses, one convex, the other concave, a piece of
thick plate glass and a spherometer. The latter consists of a tripod, ..."
2. Elements of Physical Manipulation by Edward Charles Pickering (1879)
"spherometer. Apparatus. Two lenses, one convex, the other concave, a piece of
thick plate glass and a spherometer. The latter consists of a tripod, ..."
3. Laboratory Physics: A Students Manual for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Dayton Clarence Miller (1903)
"H. LENGTH AND RADIUS OF CURVATURE WITH THE spherometer Measure the thickness of
a metal disk, and the depth of a hole in it. ..."
4. A Laboratory Manual of Physics and Applied Electricity by Edward Leamington Nichols (1894)
"The spherometer, as indicated by its name, is intended primarily for the ...
The spherometer. for example, the thickness of plates of glass or other ..."
5. An Introduction to Physical Measurements: With Appendices on Absolute by Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch, Thomas Hutchinson Waller, Henry Richardson Procter (1881)
"The radius of curvature of a spherical surface—eg the surface of a lens—-can,
when it is large enough, be determined with the spherometer in the following ..."
6. Physical Laboratory Experiments for Engineering Students by Samuel Sheldon, Erich Hausmann (1917)
"The spherometer consists of a screw moving vertically in a nut mounted at the
... If the spherometer reading be o and the distance between the axes of the ..."
7. Publications of the Washburn Observatory of the University of Wisconsin by Washburn Observatory, Edward Singleton Holden, John Eugene Davies, George Cary Comstock (1884)
"The weight of the whole spherometer is about one and a half ounces. ... CONSTANTS OF
THE spherometer. We may call the three legs of the tripod a, b, c; a, ..."
8. Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics by Balfour Stewart, William Winson Haldane Gee (1885)
"We shall now, therefore, proceed to describe the spherometer, ... LESSON IV.—The
spherometer.. Exercise.—To measure the thickness of a thin plate of glass. ..."
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