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micrometrically

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • By means of a micrometer.

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Examples

  • Flaubert's micrometrically particular style is watching her as well: "le bout de sa langue … léchait à petits coups le fond du verre."

    No Way, Madame Bovary 2004

  • Flaubert's micrometrically particular style is watching her as well: "le bout de sa langue … léchait à petits coups le fond du verre."

    No Way, Madame Bovary 2004

  • It was decidedly something more than that; it was the kind of discomfort, the kind of nebulous puzzlement, which the Saint had felt before in all manner of circumstances when something was micrometrically off-key and his senses were busy delivering messages to his understanding which that partly instinct-driven system refused to accept as making a wholly convincing picture.

    Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

  • Flandry adjusted his cap to micrometrically calculated rakish-ness.

    Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

  • He did not have to touch his forehead to know that while he slept the surgeons had been at work, she hair-thin electrodes slipped into the micrometrically located centers of his brain, the bright badge of communion implanted on his brow.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • She glanced at her own taut, trim abdomen; upon which a micrometrically-precise topographical mapping job might have revealed an otherwise imperceptible bulge.

    Masters of Space Robert Lee [Illustrator] Berry 1925

  • The other, hands moving faster than the eye could follow, was locking it -- micrometrically precise and immovably secure -- into place.

    Masters of Space Robert Lee [Illustrator] Berry 1925

  • This relative method of mapping micrometrically a field of neighbouring stars, and comparing their configuration now and six months hence, was, however, the method ultimately destined to succeed; and it is, I believe, the only method which has succeeded down to the present day.

    Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

  • Standard on all pad printers from PPMoV are micrometrically controlled cliché supports and fixture tables for precision printing, hermetically sealed ceramic ring ink cups for quick color and art changes and touchpad controls that allow simple programming changes.

    Packaging and Converting Essentials 2009

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