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{ } a. Of or pertaining to alkalimetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to anemometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to anthropometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Asymmetrous. ] 1. Incommensurable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea. -- Bath`y*met"ric*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. chronométrique. ] Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to craniometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Of or pertaining to a diameter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. As remote as possible, as if at the opposite end of a diameter; directly adverse. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not having symmetry; asymmetrical; unsymmetrical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a dynameter.

{ } a. Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. électrométrique. ] Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of an electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to a eudiometer; as, eudiometrical experiments or results. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. geometricus; Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. géométrique. ] 1. Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Art) characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration; as, a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometrical designs.
Syn. -- geometric. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ Geometric is often used, as opposed to algebraic, to include processes or solutions in which the propositions or principles of geometry are made use of rather than those of algebra. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Geometrical is often used in a limited or strictly technical sense, as opposed to mechanical; thus, a construction or solution is geometrical which can be made by ruler and compasses, i. e., by means of right lines and circles. Every construction or solution which requires any other curve, or such motion of a line or circle as would generate any other curve, is not geometrical, but mechanical. By another distinction, a geometrical solution is one obtained by the rules of geometry, or processes of analysis, and hence is exact; while a mechanical solution is one obtained by trial, by actual measurements, with instruments, etc., and is only approximate and empirical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Geometrical curve. Same as Algebraic curve; -- so called because their different points may be constructed by the operations of elementary geometry. --
Geometric lathe, an instrument for engraving bank notes, etc., with complicated patterns of interlacing lines; -- called also cycloidal engine. --
Geometrical pace, a measure of five feet. --
Geometric pen, an instrument for drawing geometric curves, in which the movements of a pen or pencil attached to a revolving arm of adjustable length may be indefinitely varied by changing the toothed wheels which give motion to the arm. --
Geometrical plane (Persp.), the same as Ground plane . --
Geometrical progression,
proportion,
ratio. See under Progression, Proportion and Ratio. --
Geometrical radius, in gearing, the radius of the pitch circle of a cogwheel. Knight. --
Geometric spider (Zool.), one of many species of spiders, which spin a geometrical web. They mostly belong to Epeira and allied genera, as the garden spider. See Garden spider. --
Geometric square, a portable instrument in the form of a square frame for ascertaining distances and heights by measuring angles. --
Geometrical staircase, one in which the stairs are supported by the wall at one end only. --
Geometrical tracery, in architecture and decoration, tracery arranged in geometrical figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to the rules or laws of geometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, a. Pertaining to, or determined by means of, a goniometer; trigonometric. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the heliometer, or to heliometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Consisting of six metrical feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to horometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. hydromètrique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to an hydrometer, or to the determination of the specific gravity of fluids. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to measurement of the velocity, discharge, etc., of running water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Made by means of an hydrometer; as, hydrometric observations. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hydrometric pendulum, a species of hydrometer consisting of a hollow ball of ivory or metal suspended by a treated from the center of a graduated quadrant, and held in a stream to measure the velocity of the water by the inclination given to the thread; a kind of current gauge. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. hygrométrique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to hygrometry; made with, or according to, the hygrometer; as, hygrometric observations. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Readily absorbing and retaining moisture; as, hygrometric substances, like potash. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hypermetrical verse (Gr. & Lat. Pros.), a verse which contains a syllable more than the ordinary measure.

{ } a. Of or pertaining to hypsometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not metrical or rhythmical. [ R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Iso- + Gr. me`tron measure. ] 1. Pertaining to, or characterized by, equality of measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Crystallog.) Noting, or conforming to, that system of crystallization in which the three axes are of equal length and at right angles to each other; monometric; regular; cubic. Cf. Crystallization. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to isometrics. [ PJC ]

Isometric lines (Thermodynamics), lines representing in a diagram the relations of pressure and temperature in a gas, when the volume remains constant. --
Isometrical perspective. See under Perspective. --
Isometrical projection, a species of orthographic projection, in which but a single plane of projection is used. It is so named from the fact that the projections of three equal lines, parallel respectively to three rectangular axes, are equal to one another. This kind of projection is principally used in delineating buildings or machinery, in which the principal lines are parallel to three rectangular axes, and the principal planes are parallel to three rectangular planes passing through the three axes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; equal + &unr_; circumference: cf. F. isopérimètre. See Perimeter. ] (Geom.) Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. manométrique. ] Of or pertaining to the manometer; made by the manometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a metrical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. micrométrique. ] Belonging to micrometry; made by the micrometer. -- Mi`cro*met"ric*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

{ } a. [ Mono- + symmetric, -ical. ] (Crystallog.) Same as Monoclinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. odométrique, hodométrique. ] Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry; as, a perimetric chart of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. photométrique. ] Of or pertaining to photometry, or to a photometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. planimétrique. ] Of or pertaining to planimetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Pluviometrical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. pluviométrique. ] Of or pertaining to a pluviometer; determined by a pluviometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Prose + metrical. ] Consisting both of prose and verse. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the psychrometer or psychrometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. pyrométrique. ] (Physics) Pertaining to, or obtained by, the pyrometer; as, pyrometrical instruments; pyrometrical measurements. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. stéréométrique. ] Of or pertaining to stereometry; performed or obtained by stereometry. -- Ste`re*o*met"ric*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]