单词 | reducing scale |
释义 | > as lemmasreducing scale ΚΠ 1688 J. Love Geodæsia ix. 139 This done, lay the Centre of your Reducing-Scale near the Centre of the white Paper, and there with a a Needle through the Centre make it fast. 1701 T. Tuttell Descr. Math. Instruments in J. Moxon Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 17 Reducing Scale,..a thin broad piece of Box with several different Scales of equal Parts, and Lines to turn Chains and Links into Acres and Roods, by Inspection. 1770 W. Emerson Art Surv. 6 As to the reducing scale, it turns on a center pin, nearer one end than the other. < as lemmas |
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