Cyclopædia
Assuming sum is required, the following 29 results were found.
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ALLIGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ALLIGATION
find the Price or Value of some part of the Mixture. Multiply the Ingredients severally by their own Prices, and divide the Sum of those Products by the Sum of the Ingredients; the Quotient answers the Question. The Prices of the several Ingredients,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Arithmetic
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INFORMATUS NON SUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/INFORMATUS-NON-SUM
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ADDITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDITION
ones given, which is equal to the given numbers taken jointly or together. See NUMBER. This number, thus found, is called the sum or aggregate of the numbers given. See SUM. The character of addition is +, which we usually express by Plus. Thus 3 + 4...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE
of the Staves, GE. To GF, GE and HF; find a fourth proportional BH.—To this add the Altitude of the shorter Staff, FC. The Sum is the Altitude required, AB. To measure an accessible Altitude, trigonometrically.— Suppose it required to find the Altitude...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSIONAL%20DIFFERENCE
Declination 9°. 00'. Then, to the Arc co. of the Co-Tangent of 51°. 30' = 0.099395 Add the Tangent of 9°. 00' = 9.199712 Sum is the Sine of 11°. 29' = 9.299107 which is the ascensional Difference required; and being re- duced into Time, by allowing four...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION
in one moment is not at all altered by what is made in another; but the two are, as it were, aggregated, or brought into one sum. Wherefore, since the particles of time are supposed infinitely small, and all equal to one another; the impetus acquired by...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE
bills of exchange. To accept a bill of exchange is to sign or subscribe to it and thereby become the principal debtor of the sum contained therein with an obligation to pay or discharge it at a time prescribed. See BILL OF EXCHANGE. The acceptance is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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AGGREGATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGGREGATE
the sum, or result of several things aggregated or added together. See ACCRETION, and SUM.Natural bodies are Aggregates, or Assemblages of Particles or Corpuscles, bound together by the Principle of Attraction. See BODY, PARTICLE, &c.The word is formed...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AMPLITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPLITUDE
and the Declination 11° 50'; Then to the Ar.co. of the Co-fine of 50° 30’ : 0,2058503 Add the Sine of : 9,3118926 ---------- Sum is the Sine of : 9,5177429 which is the Amplitude requir’d. Magnetical Amplitude, is an Arch of the Horizon, contained...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION
The Theory of Animal Secretion is one of the Improvements in Physic, for which we are indebted to Geometrical Reasoning. The sum of what our late Writers on the subject have shown, may be reduced to the following heads:(1.) Different Juices may be...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AMIABLE Numbershttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMIABLE%20Numbers
Numbers, denote Numbers which are mutually equal to the whole Sum of one another’s Aliquot Parts. Examples are the Numbers 284 and 220. See NUMBER.
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ACQUITTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ACQUITTANCE
ACQUITTANCE, or Quittance, a Release, or Discharge in Writing, of a Sum of Money, or other Duty which ought to be paid or done. See RECEIPT.The Verb Acquit, the Participle Acquitted, and the Noun Acquittal, do also signify a Discharge from an Offence...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Poetry
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ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION
from a great Number of Phenomena.—We shall here only mention a few easy and obvious ones; as, the Spherical Figure, assumed by the Drops of Fluids; which can only arise from such Principle: The uniting and incorporating of two Spherules of Quicksilver...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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ANTECEDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECEDENT
etc. In Opposition hereto, the latter is called the Consequent. See CONSEQUENT. Thus in the Syllogism cogito, ergo sum, I think, and therefore exist; cogito is the Antecedent; being thus called because it precedes the ergo, or the copula of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANALYTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTICS
1684; and Newton, in Considerationibus circa Analysis ad quantitates infinitesimas parvas applicatae, principia, 1695. The Sum of what is found in l'Hôpital, Carre, Cheyne, Gregory, and Craig; is collected into one Volume, and very well explained by C....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ERRATAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php?view=article&id=3:ERRATA&catid=1209640500
of its Base, read Diameters of its Bases. Contact, line 15. for cats read touches. Crepusculum, p. 344. l. penult, for Sum of, read Sun's, and p. 345. 1ine 2. and 3. for, P Z the Elevation of the Pole P R, read P Z the Complement of the Elevation, &c....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ASSURANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSURANCE
others for Goods; and some for both. We have also Assurances for Life, in Virtue whereof, when the Person assured dies, a Sum of Money becomes payable to the Person in whose Favour the Policy of Assurance was given. See ANNUITY, &c. ASSURANCE, in Logic,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION
also used in a Legal Sense, for the assigning, making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing, to assure the Payment of a Sum of Money, or the Discharge of some other Duty or Service.—His Effects were all affected to his Creditors—The Revenues of such a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ANATOCISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATOCISM
Anatocismus, an Usurious Contract, wherein the Interests arising from the principal Sum, are added to the Principal itself, and Interest exacted upon the Whole. Anatocism is what we popularly call Interest upon Interest, or Compound Interest. See...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABSOLUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSOLUTE
by it self, added te 16 times 'a'. This is what Vieta calls Homogeneum Comparationis. Absolute Equation, in Astronomy, is the Sum of the Optic and Eccentric Equations, See EQUATION. Ablative Absolute, is a Diction detach'd, and independent of the rest...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy