Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mathematical instrument for measuring angles in surveying; a semicircle.
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Examples
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The recording graphometer, with its characteristic scratchy noise, identified the position of the ship as a red dot on the insert card.
Venus in Danger Mahr, Kurt 1976
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A microscopic graphometer, not much larger than the palm of one's hand and costing perhaps five francs, was provided by the establishment.
The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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-- was not without a certain satisfaction as I piously carried that most delicate and precious apparatus, the historic five-franc graphometer.
The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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