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micrometrical, a.|maɪkrəʊˈmɛtrɪkəl| [f. prec. + -al1.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a micrometer; carried on by or resulting from the use of the micrometer.
1712Derham in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 523, l.u. The enlightned part of the Moon, being 1025 Micrometrical Parts, or 20′. 1829Herschell Ess. (1857) 537 The micrometrical measurements of double stars. 1837Goring & Pritchard Microgr. 48 The divisions of the scale of micrometrical eye-pieces. 1882Athenæum No. 2833. 194 A third catalogue of micrometrical measures of double stars made at..Rugby,..is contained in the volume..before us. Hence microˈmetrically adv., by means of a micrometer.
1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sci. (1849) 419 Whose motions have been micrometrically measured. 1876G. F. Chambers Astron. 11 This was micrometrically established in a lateral direction by Challis in 1857. |