It will come into the world half-Japanese, one-thirty-second Siwash and all thumbs. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
He knew how to shrink a document down to one-thirty-second of its original size, and how to add toner. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Minutes]
Its weight may be called one-thirty-second of a pound to the cubic foot and atmospheric air about three-fourths of a pound. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
A battery of 24 cells, each weighing 14 lb., will keep a strip of platinum five-eighths of an inch wide, one-thirty-second of an inch thick, and 9 ft. 10 in. long, red-hot for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881] Reference
It will measure the one-fifty-thousandth part of a degree of heat, and consists of strips of platinum one-thirty-second of an inch wide and one-fourth of an inch long; and so thin that it requires fifty to equal the thickness of tissue paper, placed in the circuit of electricity running to a galvanometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
Sawyer and Man had a diameter of one-thirty-second of an inch or more. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
"Nobody gives you one-thirty-second of the information you need to make a business decision.". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The size of the jighead can vary from one-eighth ounce for deeper water where trolling is necessary to the very light, one-thirty-second ounce for shallow brushy shorelines. From Wordnik.com. [Payson Roundup stories] Reference
It may be purchased at hardware supply depots in the form of strips an inch and a half wide, by one-thirty-second thick, and is much easier to work than the tempered variety. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting with the Bow and Arrow] Reference
I got my apparatus down and set up, and then to get a preliminary idea of what the distortion of the signal would be, I sent a single dot, which should have been recorded upon my automatic paper by a mark about one-thirty-second of an inch long. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1] Reference
The carbon filament, which constitutes the only new part of the combination of the second claim of that patent, differs from the earlier carbon burners of Sawyer and Man, only in having a diameter of one-sixty-fourth of an inch or less, whereas the burners of Sawyer and Man had a diameter of one-thirty-second of an inch or more. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1] Reference
For this reason, the use of carbon filaments, one-sixty-fourth of an inch in diameter or less, instead of carbon burners one-thirty-second of an inch in diameter or more, not only worked an enormous economy in conductors, but also necessitated a great change in generators, and did both according to a philosophy, which Edison was the first to know, and which is stated in this paragraph in its simplest form and aspect, and which lies at the foundation of the incandescent electric lighting of the world. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1] Reference
A mark about one-thirty-second of an inch long. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
Fahr., and this is concentrated to have one-quarter of the radiating surface, it would reach a temperature of 4000 degrees or sufficient to melt it; but, supposing it infusible, the further concentration to one-eighth its surface, it would reach a temperature of 16,000 degrees, and to one-thirty-second its surface, which would be about the radiating surface of the Electric Arc, it would reach 64,000 degrees Fahr. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
These results account for the enormous temperature of the Electric Arc with one horse-power; as, for instance, if one horse-power will heat twelve inches of wire to 1000o Fahr., and this is concentrated to have one-quarter of the radiating surface, it would reach a temperature of 4000o or sufficient to melt it; but, supposing it infusible, the further concentration to one-eighth its surface, it would reach a temperature of 16,000o, and to one-thirty-second its surface, which would be about the radiating surface of the Electric Arc, it would reach 64,000o Fahr. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2] Reference
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