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- English Word Indicator Definition A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part
- English Word Indicator Definition An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below).
- English Word Indicator Definition A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc.
- English Word Indicator Definition The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer.
- English Word Indicator Definition Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. See Honey guide, under Honey.
- English Word Indicator Definition That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis.
- English Word Indicatory Definition Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying.
- English Word Indicatrix Definition A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic.
- English Word Indicavit Definition A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts.
- English Word Indice Definition Index; indication.
- English Word Indices Definition of Index
- English Word indices Definition of Index
- English Word Indices Definition See Index.
- English Word Indicia Definition Discriminating marks; signs; tokens; indications; appearances.
- English Word Indicible Definition Unspeakable.
- English Word Indicolite Definition A variety of tourmaline of an indigo-blue color.
- English Word Indict Definition To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
- English Word Indict Definition To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
- English Word Indict Definition To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.
- English Word Indictable Definition Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense.
- English Word Indicted Definition of Indict
- English Word Indictee Definition A person indicted.
- English Word Indicter Definition One who indicts.
- English Word Indicting Definition of Indict
- English Word Indiction Definition Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment.
- English Word Indiction Definition A cycle of fifteen years.
- English Word Indictive Definition Proclaimed; declared; public.
- English Word Indictment Definition The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted.
- English Word Indictment Definition The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury.
- English Word Indictment Definition An accusation in general; a formal accusation.