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MICRA, Inc. is a small corporation in New Jersey primarily concerned with building lexical databases for use in Natural Language Understanding.
An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.
Industry:Language
An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial.
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An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.
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An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.
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An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.
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An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.
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An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.
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An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.
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An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.
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