| 单词 | a pair of marquois scales |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pair of Marquois scales A plain-edged scale used in conjunction with a triangle for drawing equidistant parallel lines. Also more fully Marquois parallel scales, Marquois scale and triangle, and a pair of Marquois scales. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > other surveying instruments quadrat?c1400 trigon1590 square1600 peractor1616 definitor1664 Marquois scale1783 topograph1865 outkeeper1868 aba1876 1783 Morning Herald 4 Jan. f. 2v/3 (advt.) Marquois' parallel Scales, for drawing all kind of Plans. 1834 Catal. Instruments Troughton & Simms 2 Plotting, Marquois and Gunter's Scales. 1849 J. F. Heather Treat. Math. Instruments 45 The pair of Marquois's scales now before us. 1878 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 105 418 An improved form of Marquoi's scale. 1883 W. H. Richards Textbk. Mil. Topogr. 153 A large rolling ruler, or the marquois scale and triangle, is available for carrying a parallel line. 1886 Athenæum 4 Sept. 307/2 There is one..instrument, namely, the marquois scales, which it is rather surprising to see omitted in this list. 1925 C. Close & H. St. J. L. Winterbotham Text Bk. Surveying (ed. 3) 343 Scales, diagonal..marquois. 1943 Empire Survey Rev. Jan. 34 The initials given as guides are numbers of units on the various marquois scales. 1988 M. Hambly Drawing Instruments 1580–1980 120 Sets of these special Marquois scales continued to be made throughout the nineteenth century. < as lemmas |
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