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manographs

manographs is the plural of manograph.

Meaning of manograph

Noun

manograph (plural manographs)

  1. An optical device for making pressure volume diagrams for high-speed engines, involving a light-tight box or camera having at one end a small convex mirror reflecting a beam of light onto the ground glass or photographic plate at the other end. The mirror is pivoted so that it can be moved so as to copy the motion of the engine piston on a smaller scale.
    • In addition to the ordinary type of indicator, the Author describes the Hospitalier and the Schultze manographs, in which the diagram is produced photographically by reflecting a beam of light from a mirror attached to a diaphragm […]1909, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Questions about manographs

What is manographs the plural of?
Manographs is the plural of manograph.

Words near manographs in the dictionary

  1. manoeuvring
  2. manoeuvring the apostles
  3. manoeuvrings
  4. manoever
  5. manograph
  6. manographs
  7. Manohar
  8. Manoian
  9. Manoians
  10. manoir
  11. manoirs

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