Word Meanings - PACHOMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of a mirror, or of paper; a pachymeter.

• Instrumentality
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
• Pachymeter
  Same as Pachometer.
• MIRRORSCOPE
  See Projector, below.
• Glass maker
  Alt. of Glassmaker
• Instrumentally
  By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
• Glassmaker
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass.
• Glass-rope
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• Instrumentalness
  Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality.
• Glass-snail
  A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
• Instrumentary
  Instrumental.
• Papering
  of Paper
• Glass-snake
  A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in
• Instrumentation
  The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
• Paperweight
  See under Paper, n.
• Glass-sponge
  A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.

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