Measurer
[meʒәrә]
Definition
(n.) One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
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Examples
- But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- An instrument called a cyanometer, meaning measurer of blue, is used for ascertaining the intensity of color in the sky. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His skill as a painter of glass, as a draughtsman, and land-measurer, would earn him a living wherever he might go. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Where churches were being built he painted glass, where towns or nobles needed measurers or surveyors of their lands he worked for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Weight clocks had been in use as t ime-measurers since the thirteenth century, but they were, as we have seen, difficult to control and otherwise unreliable. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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