Gramme
[græm]
Definition
(n.) The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4.
(n.) Same as Gram the weight.
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Definition
See Gram.
Typist: Phil
Examples
- Gramme made his armature of iron rods to prevent its destruction by heat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Gramme, of France, a little later than Wilde made a great improvement. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Medical authorities agree in considering the daily consumption of 1 gramme as being not only perfectly inoffensive, but decidedly beneficial to health. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Gramme employed the commutator to make the current direct instead of alternating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was of the Gramme type, as our first dynamo of the Edison design was not yet finished. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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