Filar

Word FILAR
Character 5
Hyphenation fi lar
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Filar"

What do we mean by filar?

Of or relating to a thread. adjective

Having fine threads across the field of view for measuring small distances, as in the eyepiece of a telescope. adjective

Thread-like; filaceous or filamentous.

Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view adjective

Of or relating to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view. adjective

Related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) adjective

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The word "filar" in example sentences

Over 10,000 filar-micrometer and red light CCD measurements of Mars' north polar cap have been taken over the past 40 years, and they show that it has been shrinking. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

For several thousand years the stars have been called "fixed," but the fine rulings of the filar micrometer tell a different story. ❋ Various (N/A)

Place the filar micrometer and the stage micrometer in their respective positions. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Rotate the screw of the filar micrometer until the movable wire coincides with the fixed one, and the index marks zero on the drum head. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Wolf and Pritchard had, it is true, been beforehand with him; but the wide scattering of the grouped stars puts the filar micrometer at a disadvantage in measuring them, producing minute errors which the arduous conditions of the problem render of serious account. ❋ Various (N/A)

Its segments are separable to the extent of 2°, and through the contrivance of cylindrical slides (originally suggested by Bessel) perfect definition is preserved in all positions, giving a range of accurate measurement just six times that with a filar micrometer. ❋ Various (N/A)

At one end of the drum are gear teeth, 1 mm. apart on centers, which can be made to engage a worm revolving a pointer in front of a dial graduated to hundredths; by means of this and a filar eyepiece, the distance between the start of the two rows of spark dots on the drum can be measured accurately to 0.01 mm. ❋ Herbert M. Wilson (N/A)

Westfall, staring into the eyepiece of the filar micrometer, finished measuring the apparent size of the heptagon before he turned toward ❋ Unknown (1927)

A spider web, revealing its geometric perfection, hung half across one corner of the rude casement; the moonbeams without were individualized in fine filar delicacy, like the ravellings of a silver skein. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)

All adown the desert aisles of the leafless woods the light lay with a flocculent glister like snow, so enhanced was its whiteness in the rare air and the blackness of the forest shadows -- spare, clearly drawn, all filar and fine like the intricacies of a delicate line engraving. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)

The method of observing which Brünnow employed was quite different from that of Struve, though the filar micrometer was used in both cases. ❋ Unknown (1876)

In the filar micrometer two spider lines are parallel, and one intersects them at right angles. ❋ Unknown (1876)

Han filar, stimulerar, omarbetar, lär sig och lägger på hög. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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On the other Hand, if it be pro - pofed to view the Planet Mercury, as his diurnal Motion in his Orbit exceeds that of the Sun, then, if I retard the Motion of the Pendulum in fuch Proportion as the mercurial Day exceeds the Length of the filar Day, will you have a View of this Planet fixed, or permanent as if really motionlefs in the Heavens. ❋ Unknown (1781)

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