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protractor
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction. 2 A circular or semicircular tool for drawing or measure#verb angles. 3 (context surgery English) An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound. 4 (context ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "one who lengthens (an action)," from Medieval Latin protractor , agent noun from Latin protrahere "to draw forward" (see protraction ); sense of "instrument for drawing angles" first recorded 1650s.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A protractor is a measuring instrument , typically made of transparent plastic or glass, for measuring angles . Most protractors measure angles in degrees (°). Radian-scale protractors measure angles in radians . Most protractors are divided into 180 equal ...
Usage examples of protractor.
A semicircular protractor of metal for measuring the inclination of vents, or for ascertaining their deviation from the guide.
I try and keep up my Euclid and do a rider over my lunch, and I just keep a protractor handy.
And, unafraid of the grimness, Ellen ran on ahead, her arms crooked back funnily because she had her hands in her pocket to keep the coconut-ice tin from rattling against the protractor, her red hair streaming a yard behind.
He retired to the laboratory and presently returned with a T-square, a military protractor, a pair of dividers and a large drawing-board on which was pinned a sheet of cartridge paper.
I went back to my chair and continued to read out the entries from the notebook while Thorndyke laid off the lines of direction with the protractor, taking out the distances with the dividers from a scale of equal parts on the back of the instrument.
He set off with the protractor an angle of twenty degrees from the north and south line and turned the chart round to that extent.
The stereotypical image of the civil engineer is one of a broad-shouldered, barrel-chested man with a blueprint in one hand and a protractor in the other.
When we were all together again, Henry took down the compass readings each team had gotten, and with a protractor and a ruler he drew these bearings on the map.
Quickly I pencilled in the bearings of the two extreme peaks of the Old Men from the break, and then used the protractor to measure the angle they subtended.
The astrologer dropped a heavy brass protractor on it, and rested his elbows on the flattened and stabilized mass.
He shoved the brass protractor to the floor and rummaged through his stack of papers.
And Angel sets the straight edge of the protractor, the edge marked in inches, against the circle.
Things slid off shelves, clattered to the metal-plated floor, Cohn, the radioman, who also handled the navigation, muttered a curse and bent to retrieve protractors, pencils, a steel rule.
Eschaton from rotisserie-league holocaust games played with protractors and PCs around kitchen tables.
A semicircular protractor of metal for measuring the inclination of vents, or for ascertaining their deviation from the guide.