Measuring

Examples

• We treat it simply as a privation because we are measuring it by adulthood as a fixed standard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In measuring time we cannot rely on our inward impressions; we even criticize these impressions and spe ak of time as going slowly or quickly. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The thought of our own times has not out-stripped language; a want of Plato's 'art of measuring' is the rule cause of the disproportion between them. Plato. The Republic.
• One light-measuring scale depends upon the law that the intensity of illumination decreases with the square of the distance of the object from the light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Those who spoke of justice as a cube, of virtue as an art of measuring (Prot. Plato. The Republic.
• What was needed was some device to serve as an accurate speed governor--and the attainment of this essential device is the one thing on which accurate time measuring depends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The space between these two rolls allowed pieces of rock measuring less than fourteen inches to descend to other smaller rolls placed below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As their wine was measuring out, a man parted from another man in a corner, and rose to depart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• So far as we at present know there were four forms of time-measuring instruments known to antiquity--the sun-dial, the clepsydra or water clock, the hour-glass, and the graduated candle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Hundreds of instruments have been invented for measuring, analysing, weighing, separating, volatilising and otherwise applying chemical processes to practical purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Statistics then is no automatic device for measuring facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Neither will you find him measuring all human interests, and joys, and sorrows, with his one poor little inch-rule now. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Thank you, miss, he returned, measuring the table with his troubled hands. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Current-measuring instruments, or galvanometers, depend for their action on the magnetic properties of current electricity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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