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Example sentences for "graduations"

Lexicographically close words:
graduate; graduated; graduates; graduating; graduation; gradum; gradus; graffe; graffed; graffiti
  1. The graduations on the high grade scales are produced with a special device known as a dividing engine, but on cheaper scales, etching suffices to provide a fairly accurate graduation.

  2. As will be apparent, if the line does not coincide exactly with one of the graduations it will be at some point between the lines and the true measurement may be approximated without trouble.

  3. With a metric micrometer there are fifty graduations on the barrel, these representing .

  4. If the Vernier scale is moved to the right so that the graduations marked "1" shall coincide, it will have moved one-tenth of a division on the scale or one-hundredth of an inch.

  5. A line is indicated on the movable jaw and coincides with the graduations on the scale.

  6. An opening to receive the work to be measured is provided by the backward movement of the thimble which turns the screw and the size of the opening is indicated by the graduations on the barrel.

  7. Terrestrial Radiation Thermometer= is an alcohol minimum thermometer, with the graduations etched upon the stem, and protected by a glass shield, as shown in figure 65, instead of being mounted on a frame.

  8. The graduations of the aneroid scale are obtained by comparisons with the correct standard reading of a mercurial barometer, under the normal and reduced atmospheric pressure.

  9. The graduations extend from 0 to 40; the latter being the mark which will be level with the surface when the instrument is placed in water, the specific gravity of which is 1.

  10. Alcohol does not expand equally for equal increments of heat, consequently errors are likely to exist in the scale indications unless the graduations are very accurately--not necessarily equally--made.

  11. In the illustration, the zero of the scale is placed at Z, near the middle of the tube; and the graduations extend above and below.

  12. The graduations as fixed by some makers are not always to be trusted; and this essential test should be conducted with the utmost nicety and care.

  13. As the mercury falls in the tube with a decrease of pressure, the surface of the mercury in the cistern rises, and the floating tube rises also, which causes an additional descent in the column, as shown by fixed graduations on the tube.

  14. Each wheel carries an index over a stationary dial in front; or the index is fixed, and the graduations are placed upon the wheels themselves.

  15. The compensation is carefully adjusted, and the graduations of the dial ascertained under reduced pressure, so that they are not quite equal, but more accurate.

  16. The graduations can be accurately made, and they will be affected only by well-known alterations due to temperature.

  17. The graduations must be obtained by comparisons with a standard thermometer under artificial temperatures, which should be done in this way for every 5 deg.

  18. The graduations are made upon the frame, and it is suspended for reading by a ring at the top, from beneath an iron tripod stand, which is usually supplied with it.

  19. In the manufacture of most measuring instruments, the graduations of the scale are made at the factory, by comparing the deflections of the pointer with voltages as measured on standard apparatus.

  20. The graduations show every revolution, and with two rows of figures read both right and left as the shaft may run.

  21. It may be set either from a sample line, drawn on the wood, from a given line on a protractor, from drawing triangles, from the graduations on a framing square, or in other ways.

  22. When measuring or marking from it, it can be used more accurately by turning it on edge, so that the lines of the graduations may come directly against the work.

  23. If the distance to be measured is in feet, use the 1/12" graduations on the back of the square.

  24. If the spur be at all out of place, as it is likely to be, the graduations on a beam will be unreliable.

  25. A paper scale having the necessary graduations is inserted, and the top of the outer tube is closed as shown by i.

  26. Exceedingly good graduations may be made by the edge of a small, thin, abrasive wheel which is mounted on the end of a small mandrel and driven by a flexible shaft from an electric motor or any other convenient source of power.

  27. In one type of water clock or clepsydra a conical bucket was used so that there would be a constant relation between the head of water and the volume in the bucket and the time graduations could be spaced uniformly.

  28. Consequently the time graduations on the side of the bucket had to be set farther apart at the top of the bucket than at the bottom.

  29. It will be found easy so to place the screen that the distance between successive graduations (as seen projected upon the screen) may correspond to any desired unit of linear measurement--say an inch.

  30. Direct your telescope upon the sun, and having so arranged it that the whole disc of the sun may be projected on the screen, count carefully the number of graduations that are seen to exactly occupy the solar diameter.

  31. The simplest method is to employ either-- (a) A small uniform vessel in which the latex is measured by means of a thin slip of bamboo upon which graduations are marked.

  32. If a new rider is purchased, or an old one replaced, care must be taken that its weight corresponds to the graduations on the beam of the balance on which it is to be used.

  33. The graduations are usually numbered in cubic centimeters, and the latter are subdivided into tenths.

  34. The bore of burettes is subject to accidental variations, and since the graduations are applied by machine without regard to such variations of bore, local errors result.

  35. I had great numbers of these insets made in graduations of colour and in an infinite variety of form.

  36. The child mixes them, scattering them over the little carpet, and then puts them in order, placing one against the other according to the graduations of thickness, observing that the length shall correspond exactly.

  37. The lengths of the principal graduations of such a scale are easily calculated by putting Q = 1, 2, 3 .

  38. There are graduations on three sides of the rulers, one graduation being the logarithmic line of numbers.

  39. When bubbles have ceased to rise, read off the height of the fluid in the large {67} tube by the graduations upon its side.

  40. I made experiments on the graduations of the Circle.

  41. If he knew his victim and happened to know the height of its smoke-stacks or the length of the boat, he noted how many graduations they covered, and then by a set formula he could tell how far he was from the boat.

  42. When U-boat commanders took observations on a ship painted with a "dazzle" camouflage, they saw a shimmering image which it was hard for them to measure on the fine graduations of their periscopes.

  43. On the glass of this periscope, there were a number of graduations running vertically and horizontally.

  44. The graduations of tone found in the piece are very fine and could only have been written by one who knew intimately the tonal resources of the modern pianoforte.

  45. At P is a pointer for the graduations on C, which are marked to correspond with the graduations upon the taper turning attachment of a lathe.

  46. The broadest floats are in action when the crank is at its points of greatest power, and the narrowest at the time the engine is on a dead centre, hence there are four general graduations of breadth in the circumference of the wheel.

  47. In American practice, however, it is customary to mark the graduations on the edge of the swing frame as in Fig.

  48. To turn a crowning pulley the rails carrying the slide rests are set at an angle, the graduations shown on the edge of the ways to which they are bolted being to determine the degree of angle.

  49. The graduations of the degrees of a circle for setting over the swing frame F, as is necessary when planing surfaces that are at an angle to the bed and to the cross slide, are marked on the face of the saddle, and the pointer (f, Fig.

  50. In this case, the casting needs to be rotated one-half a revolution or 180 degrees, and this is done by means of angular graduations on the base of the table.

  51. The base of the compound rest is graduated in degrees and the position of these graduations shows to what angle the upper slide is set.

  52. If the latter does not run true, the hand of the indicator vibrates and the graduations on the dial show how much the work is out in thousandths of an inch.

  53. Therefore, the carriage can only be engaged when one of the four graduations representing an inch of travel is opposite the arrow, when cutting odd threads; whereas even numbers can be "caught" by using any one of the eight lines.

  54. The particular indicator illustrated is of the dial type, any error in the location of the button being shown by a hand over a dial having graduations representing thousandths of an inch.

  55. When the taper is given in degrees, the tool-bar can be set by graduations on the edge of the circular base B, which show the angle a to which the bar is swiveled from a vertical position.

  56. The barrel I is used for raising and lowering the slide, but instead of having the graduations placed directly upon it, they are made upon the sleeve C, which fits over a shoulder on the barrel.

  57. Angular measurements can also be divided into two classes; those measured directly by graduations on the instrument, and those measured by comparison with a given angle of the instrument.

  58. As will be seen in the engraving, there are two sets of graduations on the sleeve A, thus enabling the operator to tell at a glance what measurement is obtained from the outside or the inside of the measuring disks.

  59. Graduations on the Fractional-reading Micrometer] Micrometers may also be graduated as in Fig.

  60. A knurled ring D is driven onto the micrometer sleeve so that it can be turned around to bring the graduations uppermost when the position of the barrel is changed.

  61. The remainder is milled to a thickness of 1/8 inch and has graduations of 0.

  62. This allows more easy means of adjustment than would be possible were the graduations placed on the barrel itself.

  63. The new graduations are independent of the old, and may be used equally well with or without them.

  64. The graduations on this instrument are similar to those of the vernier caliper, only they are much plainer, as a half-inch movement of the rod turns the dial one complete revolution.

  65. One of its advantages over the vernier is the readiness with which the graduations are discerned, and it is as easy to manipulate as the ordinary micrometer.

  66. The lacy folds and furbelows and semi-transparencies that clothed her were now tinged with gold and now, as a hedge or a flower bed screened her from the level rays, were softened into multitudinous graduations of grays and mauves and violets.

  67. And the only point in which we are necessarily in doubt arises from the fact that we are ignorant of the actual number and nature of the graduations of Ahaz’s so-called “Dial.

  68. The sliding "T" square having the time graduations at one edge, corresponding to given ranges.

  69. By these and the adjusting screws on which the whole instrument stands, the glass torsion thread could be brought accurately into the centre of the instrument and of the graduations on it.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "graduations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.