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  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    Principle: The uniting and incorporating of two Spherules of Quicksilver into one, upon the first touch, or extremely near approach of their Surfaces: The rising of Water up the Sides of a Glass Bubble immerged therein, higher than the Level of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Mechanics

  • ASYMPTOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/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. In-coincident,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geometry

  • APPROACHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/fortification/APPROACHES

    APPROACHES, in Fortification, the several Works made by the Besiegers for advancing or getting nearer to a Fortress, or Place besieged. See WORK, FORTIFICATION. Such are Trenches, Mines, Saps, Lodgments, Batteries, etc. See TRENCH, MINE, SAP, BATTERY,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Fortification

  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    by the meeting of those Lines, sustains, as it were, the Pressure of the whole Mass: Consequently, the nearer a Body approaches thereto, the Effect or Pressure of more united Lines must it sustain. See AIR, and ATMOSPHERE. But what overturns this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Mechanics

  • ASPERA ARTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPERA%20ARTERIA

    is formed of annular Cartilages ranged at small and equal Distances from one another, growing smaller and smaller, as they approach the Lungs; and those of the Bronchia so close to one another, that, in Expiration, the second enters within the first,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • TO THE KINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/to-the-king

    wholly indifferent ; 'tis Your Majesty 's Praise to be great in what is the Perfection of our Nature, and that whereby we approach nearest the Deity. Happy Choice ! to use Power only as the Means of rendering your Beneficence more diffusive ; and thus...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID

    mineral stone, wherein bitumen is the prevailing ingredient. The third is of such as contain a more fixed mineral sulfur, approaching the nature of a metalline one. Such are the acids drawn from Sea Salts and Sal Gemma's; the latter of which is chiefly...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    MEPHITES. The Damps in Mines are of 4 Kinds : The first which withal is the most ordinary, the Workmen apprehend in its Approach, by the Flame of the Candle's becoming orbicular, and lessening by degrees, till it goes quiet out as also by their...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACCESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESS

    ACCESS, literally signifies easiness of approach, or entrance. See ACCESSIBLE. Such a person has access to the prince: a man of easy access: the access on that side was very difficult, by reason of rocks, etc. The word is of Latin origin, Accessus, or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APPULSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APPULSE

    in Astronomy, the approach of any Planet to a Conjunction with the Sun, or a Star. See CONJUNCTION. APPULSE

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Astronomy

  • CHEVERONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/CHEVERON

    or Cheveronels. There are Cheverons of several Pieces. A Cheveron is said to be abaiss'd, when its Point does not approach the Head of the Chief, nor reach farther than the Middle of the Coat; mutilated,when it does not touch the Extremes of the Coat ;...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Heraldry

  • ACCESSIBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSIBLE

    ACCESSIBLE, something that may be approached; or that access may be had to. See ACCESS and APPROACH. Such a place, a fortress, is accessible from the seaward, i.e., the passage to it is practicable. See FORTIFICATION and FORTIFIED PLACE. Accessible...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ABLACTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ABLACTATION

    in Gardening, a Method of Engrafting, more usually call'd Inarching, or Grafting by approach. See GRAFTING. Ablactation is only practicable where the Stock to be grafted on, and the Tree from which the Graft is to be taken, stand so near, that the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Gardening

  • APPROXIMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/APPROXIMATION

    in Arithmetic, a continual approach nearer still and nearer to a Root or Quantity sought, without a possibility of ever arriving at it exactly. See ROOT. We have divers methods of Approximation delivered by Wallis, Raphson, Halley, Howard, etc., all of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Arithmetic
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