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[f. bin- + -ant as in quadrant.]
A half of a circle or circular body; binant electrometer, an electrometer in which the index moves through half a circle.
1908Chem. Abstr. 2492 (title) A Binant Electrometer for Pointer and Meter Reading... Description of a new form of electrometer which has many advantages over the quadrant form. 1936Nature 21 Nov. 866/1 After the Great War, still more sensitive electrometers were designed; for example..a binant electrometer of high sensitivity by Hofmann. 1938R. W. Lawson tr. Hevesy & Paneth's Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) 290 Semicircular hollow plates or dees, resembling the duants or binants of an electrometer. 1952F. K. Harris Electr. Measurements x. 447 Electrometers (Hoffman) have been constructed using binants instead of quadrants and having an unsymmetrical needle position... Instability increases with increasing voltage between the binants. |