| 单词 | post office box |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspost office box post office box n. (a) a private box or pigeonhole at a post office assigned to a person or organization, where letters are kept until called for; (b) = post-office bridge n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > place where letters, etc., may be collected > post office or newspaper box box1804 call box1826 post office box1836 P.O. Box1846 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > resistance > [noun] > instrument used in measuring > in form of bridge bridge1865 Wheatstone bridge1865 wire bridge1880 post-office bridge1890 post office box1894 Kelvin double bridge1896 Maxwell bridge1907 1836 N.-Y. Mirror 9 July 11/2 Applications through Post-Office Box, five hundred and fifty-nine. 1894 W. A. Price Measurement Electr. Resistance 81 Bridge ratios of 1000 and ·001 are available in addition to those in the Post Office box. 1914 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 28 470 The resistances of the films of low resistance were measured by a post-office box in the ordinary way. 1965 G. A. G. Bennet Electr. & Mod. Physics viii. 129/2 A Wheatstone type network is connected up as shown..with the galvanometer as one of the four resistances; a Post Office box would be suitable for this purpose. 1992 R. Rankin Brentford Triangle (BNC) 92 No doubt he will wish to have the money orders forwarded to some post-office box in West Ealing. < as lemmas |
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