| 单词 | measure of capacity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeasure of capacity b. cubic, Volume, solid content. measure of capacity: the measure applied to the content of a vessel, and to liquids, grain, or the like, which take the shape of that which holds them. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun] > a) dimension(s) > property of having three dimensions > volume bulkc1449 birth1553 capacity?a1560 crassitude?a1560 solidity1570 content1612 bouka1689 volume1794 cubage1840 the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] bodge1520 oxybaphon1574 receptive measure1669 measure of capacity1866 ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) ii. ix. sig. Nj You maye readely measure all equiangle figures, what capacitie..soeuer they bee of. 1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria ii. xxiv. sig. Eeiij Rules for the inuention of his capacitie superficiall and Solide. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 30 The present Urnes were not of one capacity, the largest containing above a gallon. 1699 L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. 98 Of the Capacity usually of a Gallon or more. 1818 M. Faraday Exper. Res. iv. 11 A glass globe of the..capacity..of about 140 cubic inches. 1866 J. F. W. Herschel Familiar Lect. Sci. Subj. 192 Our ordinary measures of length, weight and capacity. < as lemmas |
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