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I then, though with some horror at my temerity, asked permission to verify his work with the dividers, and found at the first stroke a difference of at least half an inch in the distance between the eyes.
Kettle marked it off with a leg of the dividers on the chart.
The opposite leg of the dividers is the one to which is attached the spring for close setting of the points.
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The image consistently included a pair ofdividersopened across the scale bar.
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Dividerscan be placed at any point, creating a versatile system of classification.
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There aredividersplaced in the space beneath the rollers to separate and provide channels for the different grades.
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This was indeed the case, and fig. 3 demonstrates a power-law relationship between the number ofdividersand divider size.
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Capacitive voltagedividersand current wall monitor were located on different points of the lines to measure the voltage and current pulses.
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The tubers slide down the channel between thedividers, which is covered with a foam layer approximately 7 mm thick, and designed to minimize drop damage.
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Then, when it is near the proper quality to be called dough and ready for the oven, it goes into automaticdividers.
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It is not something which can be settled with a slide-rule and a pair ofdividers.
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When we talk about water and reservoirs, they become the greatdividers.
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State officials feel that the use of mediandividers, or center barriers, is vital to the success of any safety program on heavily travelled highways which are limited in width.
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The creation of vast council estates has been one of the biggest socialdividersof all times as tenants are segregated from others within their own cities.
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Helier's commitment to experimenting with flexible solid screens which can be put into a ward as roomdividers; that may go some way towards relieving the problem.
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The booths had green leather seats and velvet-covered walls, and were separated from one another by etched glassdividers.
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A more common technique is to have index cards with forty-threedividersor a system with forty-three folders or two accordion files.
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Instead of halls and classrooms, the first three academic floors are divided into classroom areas by bookshelves,dividersand flexible walls.
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