micrometry
noun
the act or process of taking measurements with a micrometer.
micrometrical
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a word derived from
micrometry.
Example Sentences
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Then there intervened the observatory at Cincinnati, founded in 1870, on Mount Lookout, thanks to the generosity of Mr. Kilgour, and known for its micrometrical measurements of double stars.
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
This distance is accurately measured by an ingenious micrometrical arrangement constructed on exactly the same principle as the bars themselves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
The sun was now very low, and the edges of the sun and of Venus were by no means of that steady character which is suitable for micrometrical measurement.
From The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
By this means complications were abolished more numerous and perplexing than Galileo himself was aware of, and the problem was reduced to one of simple micrometrical measurement.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
You need not fear that the operator will make any mistake in this micrometrical performance: her sting always slants towards the thorax, although the opposite inclination is just as practicable and easy.
From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
