Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dynamometer.
- noun (Opt.) An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to the eye end of a telescope for measuring accurately the diameter of the image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
instrument used to measure themagnification of atelescope .
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Examples
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It is a dynameter, the power of which should increase as we ascend in society.
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And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homaeopathic dynameter.
The Odyssey of Homer 2003
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And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homeopathic dynameter.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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It is a dynameter, the power of which should increase as we ascend in society.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homeopathic dynameter.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716
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And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homaeopathic dynameter.
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716
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