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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument with which small forces, as of electricity or magnetism, are measured by means of the torsion they produce in a wire or slender rod.
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- noun measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire
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