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  • SIMILARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SIMILAR

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

  • ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE

    ANGLE, Ἀγκύλος, in Geometry, the Aperture or mutual Inclination of two Lines, which meet, and form an Angle in their Point of Intersection. See LINE. Such is the Angle ABC, (Tab. Geometry, Fig. 91.) formed by the Lines AB, and AC, meeting in the Point...

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

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...

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

  • ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY

    usually render by Comparatio, and Proportionalitas: And hence, among Geometricians, Analogia is frequently used for a Similarity of Ratios; called also Proportion. See PROPORTION. Reasonings by Analogia may serve to explain and illustrate, but not to...

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

  • ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy

    ANATOMY, the Art of dissecting, or artificially taking to pieces, the solid Parts of Animal Bodies; in order to an exact Discovery of their Structure and Economy. See ANIMAL, BODY, DISSECTION, and ECONOMY. Anatomy makes a great Branch of that Division...

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

  • ACROMIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ACROMION

    from ἄκρος, extremity, and ὦμος, shoulder, i.e., the Extremity of the Shoulder, and not from Anchor, on account of any similarity in Figure which the Acromion bears to an Anchor, as Dionis has imagined. Some have thought the Acromion to be of a nature...

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

  • 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...

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

  • ACCOMMODATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCOMMODATION

    ACCOMMODATION, in Philosophy, the Application of one thing, by Analogy, to another. See ANALOGY. Thus, to know a thing by Accommodation, is to know it by the Idea of a similar thing referred thereto. A Prophecy of Scripture is said to be fulfilled...

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

  • 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...

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

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

    ACID, Acidum, anything which affects the Tongue with a Sense of Sharpness, and Sourness. See TASTE.Acids are usually divided into manifest and dubious.The Manifest Acids are those above defined, which impress the Idea sensibly. — Such are Vinegar, and...

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

  • ANOMEANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANOMEANS

    ANOMEANS, ANOMOEANS, or ANOMIANS, ANOMOEL, or ANOMIANI, a Greek Word, composed of the privative α and ὅμοιος, similar, resembling; q.d. different, dissimilar. In the fourth Century, this was the Name by which the pure Arians were distinguished; in...

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

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    ALKALY, Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly...

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

  • ALBUGOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALBUGO

    ALBUGO, or Album Oculi, the same with albuginea, or white of the eye. See EYE, ALBUGINEA, &c. Albugo is also a disease of the eye; otherwise called leukoma, and popularly, pearl and web. See LEUKOMA, and PEARL. The albugo is a whitish speck or film,...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...

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

  • 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....

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...

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

  • AGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGENT

    AGENT, Agents, in Physics, refers to something by which an action is done or effected; or which has the power to act upon another and by its action induces some change in the other. See ACT and ACTION. The word Agent is used interchangeably with...

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

  • ACINIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/ACINI

    ACINI, in Botany, small grains growing in bunches after the manner of grape-stones. The word is Latin and literally signifies grape-stone. Hence, anatomists have called some glands of a similar formation, Acini Glandulosi. See GLAND. ACINI

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