A filar eyepiece. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Place the filar micrometer and the stage micrometer in their respective positions. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
For several thousand years the stars have been called "fixed," but the fine rulings of the filar micrometer tell a different story. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
Over 10,000 filar-micrometer and red light CCD measurements of Mars' north polar cap have been taken over the past 40 years, and they show that it has been shrinking. From Wordnik.com. [The polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice-cap photo.] Reference
Wolf and Pritchard had, it is true, been beforehand with him; but the wide scattering of the grouped stars puts the filar micrometer at a disadvantage in measuring them, producing minute errors which the arduous conditions of the problem render of serious account. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
Its segments are separable to the extent of 2°, and through the contrivance of cylindrical slides (originally suggested by Bessel) perfect definition is preserved in all positions, giving a range of accurate measurement just six times that with a filar micrometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
Han filar, stimulerar, omarbetar, lär sig och lägger på hög. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Artists at Elbo.ws] Reference
In the filar micrometer two spider lines are parallel, and one intersects them at right angles. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
Westfall, staring into the eyepiece of the filar micrometer, finished measuring the apparent size of the heptagon before he turned toward. From Wordnik.com. [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference
The method of observing which Brünnow employed was quite different from that of Struve, though the filar micrometer was used in both cases. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
A spider web, revealing its geometric perfection, hung half across one corner of the rude casement; the moonbeams without were individualized in fine filar delicacy, like the ravellings of a silver skein. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895] Reference
All adown the desert aisles of the leafless woods the light lay with a flocculent glister like snow, so enhanced was its whiteness in the rare air and the blackness of the forest shadows -- spare, clearly drawn, all filar and fine like the intricacies of a delicate line engraving. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontiersmen] Reference
(c) By means of the filar micrometer. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Micrometer, filar, 66 net, 63 ocular, 63 stage, 62. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Ir. Kriladh, kruaghalax, leakanta, durunca, fca - lanta, filar. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference
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