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名詞

peirameter (plural peirameters)

1. (dated) A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions.
   • 1816, R. B. Bryan, Thomas Brown, F. Fox, “Report […] on the Experiments upon Wheel-carriages […] ”, in Philosophical Magazine:

     if, then, the peirameter be drawn forward, the carriage which moves the easiest will get before the other

関連する語

• peirastic

参照

• “peirameter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.