Word Meanings - CAMERALUCIDA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope.

• Peculiar
  One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. [U. S. & Canada] -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• Planetic
  Alt. of Planetical
• Project
  The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
• Traceries
  of Tracer/y
• Trachelorrhaphy
  The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
• Canvass
  To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote.
• Trachytic
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.
• Instrument
  That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
• Tractate
  A treatise; a tract; an essay.
• Objection
  The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.
• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these ideas a
• Peculiarities
  of Peculiarity
• TRACKMAN
  One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.
• Planetical
  Of or pertaining to planets.
• Projected
  of Project
• Tracer/y
  Ornamental work with rambled lines.
• Trachenchyma
  A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheae.
• Canvasser
  One who canvasses.
• Trachytoid
  Resembling trachyte; -- used to define the structure of certain rocks.

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