Word Meanings - PLANIMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.
Related words: (words related to PLANIMETER)
- PASS
passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind - BOUNDLESS
Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite. - PLANE TREE
See PLANE - IRREGULARITY
The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular. - INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - PASSOVER
A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at - PASSUS
A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit. - MEASURING
Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured. - PASSIBILITY
The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill. - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power. - MEASURER
One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market. - PASSENGER MILE
A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question. - PASSIFLORA
A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order PassifloreƦ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species. - PLANETULE
A little planet. Conybeare. - PLANE-PARALLEL
Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass. - PASSEGARDE
A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor. - BOUNDING
Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery. - AROUND
1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took - PLANETED
Belonging to planets. Young. - HOME-BOUND
Kept at home. - OUTBOUND
Outward bound. Dryden. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - UNBOUND
imp. & p. p. of Unbind. - SURPASS
To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip. - IMMEASURABLY
In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth. - UNBOUNDED
Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n. - HYDROBIPLANE
A hydro-aƫroplane having two supporting planes. - IMMEASURED
Immeasurable. Spenser. - OUTPASSION
To exceed in passion. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - REPASS
To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.