Cyclopædia
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POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/POINT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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DOUBLE Pointhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DOUBLE-Point
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NOMBRIL Pointhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NOMBRIL-Point
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ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE
ATMOSPHERE, Ἀτμόσφαιρα an Appendage of our Earth; consisting of a thin, fluid, elastic Substance, called Air, surrounding the Terraqueous Globe, to a considerable Height. See EARTH. By atmosphere is usually understood the whole Mass or Assemblage of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION
ACCELERATION, in Mechanicks, the Increase of Velocity in a moving Body. See VELOCITY, and ACCELERATED MOTION. Deceleration stands directly opposed to Retardation, which denotes a Diminution of Velocity. See RETARDATION. Acceleration is chiefly used in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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COUNTER-POINTEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/COUNTER-POINTED
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABATEMENT
ABATEMENT, in Heraldry, something added to a Coat-Armour to diminish its proper Value and Dignity, and note some dishonourable Action, or Stain in the Character of the Person who bears it. See ARMS. 'Tis a little controverted among Authors, whether...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Heraldry
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ASCENSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSION
ASCENSION,Ascensio, a rising, or moving See ASCENT, ASCENDANT, ASCENDING, etc. Ascension is particularly used for that miraculous Elevation of our Saviour, when he mounted to Heaven in the Sight of his Apostles. Hence also, Ascension Day, a Festival of...
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ABASEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABASED
toward the Point of the Shield ; or when the Wings are shut: The natural way of bearing 'em being spread, with the Tip pointing to the Chies, or the Angles. See VOL. A Chevron, a Pale, Bend, &c. are also said to be abased when their Points terminate in,...
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ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN
ALCORAN, the Mahometan Gospel; or the Revelations, Prophecies, &c. of the Impostor Mahomet. See MAHOMETANISM. The Word Alcoran is Arabic, and literally denotes either Reading, or Collection; but 'tis in the first of these Senses that the Alcoran of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARMINIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANS
ARMINIANS, a religious Sect or Party, which arose in Holland, by a Separation from the Calvinists. See ARMINIANISM. The Arminians are sometimes also called Remonstrants;by reason of a Remonstrance which they presented to the States General in 1611,...
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ADEQUATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEQUATE
ADEQUATE, Adequate, something equal to, or coextensive with, another; and filling the whole measure and capacity thereof. See EQUALITY. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Inadequate.See INADEQUATE. Adequate Ideas or Notions are such images or...
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ACCIDENTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCIDENTAL
ACCIDENTAL means something of the nature of an accident, or that is not essential to its subject but indifferent thereto. See ACCIDENT and ESSENTIAL. Thus, whiteness is accidental to marble, and heat to iron. Accidental point, in perspective, is a...
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BASE-POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/BASE-POINT
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GAUGE-Pointhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/GAUGE-Point
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RADIAL-POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RADIAL-POINT
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COUNTER-POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/COUNTER-POINT
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ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY
ASTRONOMY, Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods,...
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APSIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APSIDES
APSIDES, Apsis, or Apsides, in Astronomy, two Points in the Orbit of a Planet, the highest whereof is called the Aphelion, or Apogee; and the lowest the Perihelion, or Perigee. See APHELION, APOGEE, PERIHELION, and PERIGEE. The Apsides are also called...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Astronomy
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ASYMPTOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ASYMPTOTE
ASYMPTOTE, in Geometry, a Line which continually approaches nearer and nearer to another, yet will never meet there with, though indefinitely prolonged. See LINE. The Word is compounded of the privative Particle α, συν, with, and πζοω, I fall ; g.d....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry