weber meter (va bermeter)

Same as am pere- meter or as coulomb - meter (see weber ). Weber's chronometer. A kind of metronome invented by Gottfried Weber, consisting of a weight and a graduated and adjustable cord. See metronome. Weber's corpuscle. The depre ion in the veru montanum situated between the openings of the ejaculatory ducts. That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs . Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. 11. In coal - mining , the face or wall of a longwall stall in course of being holed and broken down for removal. Gresley. [Midland coalfields, Eng.] - Basal web, a small web between a bird's toes, extending little if any beyond the basal joints Weber's law. See law1 . Weber's experiment. The experiment of closing one ear to find that a vibrating tuning-fork placed with the end resting against the vertex will be heard more distinctly in that ear. Weber's glands. The mucous glands of the tongue. of the digits it connects. See cuts under Ereunetes and Weber's paradox. The fact that a muscle, semipalmate. - Chain-web, a kind of saw; a scroll-saw. - when so stretched that it cannot contract, may Choroid web, the velum inter pos i tum. - Emarginate web, a full web between a bird's toes, whose is notably concave or emarginate. See cut under totipal mate.- Geometrical spider's web. See geometric, and cut under triangle. Holland webt. Same as holland, n., 1.-Incised web, a very deeply emarginate web of a bird's toes.-India-rubber web, a fabric in which a warp of rubber threads is filled with a weft of silk, linen, or cotton. The warp, rendered inelastic during the weaving, has its elasticity subsequently restored by a proce in which the fabric is subjected to heat. Also called elastic web. - Mill-saw web, a thin saw carried in a vertical saw-gate, and used for resawing. - Pin and webt. See pin3.-Spider's web. See spider - web. elongate. web-eye (web'i), n. In pathol., same as ptery gium, 2.