Cyclopædia
Assuming points is required, the following 113 results were found.
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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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ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID
repeated impulses of the matter of light; and alkalis to be spongy bodies whose pores have formerly been filled with the points of acids and which still retain the dents or impressions thereof, and are ready to receive the like points when driven within...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION
i.e. to the dented figure ABK. Such would be the Case, if the Accessions of Velocity only happened in certain given Points of Time, e.g. in C, in E, etc., so that the Degree of Motion should continue the same until the next Period of Acceleration comes...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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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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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN
all the others not conformable thereto. The chief Differences, then, in the present Copies of this Book, consist in the Points; which were not in use at the Time of Mahomet and his immediate Successors, but were added since, to ascertain the Reading;...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARMINIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANS
from all the Reformed Churches were present. Many among them have quitted the Doctrine of their Master relating to the Points of eternal Election and Predestination— Arminius taught, that God elected the Faithful out of a Foreknowledge of their Faith:...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ADEQUATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEQUATE
have distinct ideas. Thus, a Circle being defined as a figure bounded by a curve line that returns into itself, and whose points are all equally distant from a certain intermediate point therein: Our Notion of a Circle is adequate if we have distinct...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH
ARCH, ARK, Arcus, a part of any curved line; e.g., of a circle, ellipse, or the like. See CURVE. An arc of a circle is a part of the circumference thereof, less than a half, or semicircle—Such is AB (Tab. Geometry, fig. 27) See CIRCLE and CIRCUMFERENCE....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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BASE-POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/BASE-POINT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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GAUGE-Pointhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/GAUGE-Point
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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RADIAL-POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RADIAL-POINT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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COUNTER-POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/COUNTER-POINT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APSIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/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 Apogees....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Astronomy
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ASYMPTOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ASYMPTOTE
the Perpendicular MI, etc. is shorter than MO, and MR than MQ, etc. so that the two Lines continually approach; yet the Points M, etc. and R, can never coincide, in regard there is still a Portion of a Line to keep them asunder; which Portion of a Line...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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ATOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATOM
See DIVISIBILITY. And hence many authors are led to deny the reality of atoms, together with that of mathematical points: An atom, say they, either has parts, or it has none: If it has none, it is a mere mathematical point: If it has, then do these...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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ABASEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABASED
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, or below the Centre of the Shield. See CHEVRON, PALE, &c. Again, an Ordinary is said to be abased, when below...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Heraldry
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ACIDULEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ACIDULE
The word is a diminutive of Acidum; which is formed from the Greek "ἀκίδος" (akidos), point, edge; in regard the points of acid substances prick and vellicate the tongue. We sometimes also meet with Acidulated, q. d. something wherein acid juices have...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Natural History
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ARMILUSTRIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARMILUSTRIUM
in Antiquity, a Feast held among the Romans; wherein they sacrificed, armed at all Points, and with the Sound of Trumpets. See FEAST. Some define Armilustrium to have been a Feast, wherein a general Review was made of all the Forces in the Campus...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology