What is "argand"

Usage examples of "argand".

It was, though I did not yet understand the fact, one of the new Argand lamps, invented in England a bare ten years earlier, which derived from their burning oil about ten times the light of old lamps of the same size.

And they were hard at work, but now equipped with a smaller, better focused version of the Argand lamp.

But despite the glow of a thousand candles and Argand lamps, he saw nothing but flashes of fans and trains and white slippers.

An Argand lamp resting on a satinwood table cast a mellow glow over the chintz-draped walls of the parlor.

The gentle glow of the Argand lamps had been replaced by pitch-coated torches in iron sconces.

Jacob and Stephen Maturin had been talking about the pleasanter sides of their evening with Mr Wright as they sharpened their instruments on variety of hones and oilstones by the Argand light in the orlop.

Then the gas is turned on, with supernumerary argand lamps and manifold waxlights, to illuminate countless cakes, of all prices and dimensions, that stand in rows and piles on the counters and sideboards, and in the windows.

An argand lamp cast a voluptuous light over the sumptuous chamber, while a bright fire rendered it warm and pleasant.

The cabin had not yet been fully cleared for action and Stephen was sitting there with the light of an Argand lamp focused by a concave mirror on to the dark purple of that terrible hand, now stretched out by clamps on a board.

Those from the Worcester's great cabin showed brighter than most, because her captain still had a great deal of paper-work to do, and he had lit his patent Argand lamp: statements from the receiving-ships lay on his table, together with indents for carpenter's, gunner's and bosun's stores, huge rolls from the Victualling Yard, and the first outline of a watch-list, the result of some hours of close consultation between him and his first lieutenant .

In the evening especially its argand lamp is lighted, and the red and green jars that embellish his shop-front throw far across the street their two streams of color.

It is obtained by plotting vector sums of points on an Argand plane-that is to say, with one real axis and one imaginary axis.

It is obtained by plotting vector sums of points on an Argand plane -- that is to say, with one real axis and one imaginary axis.

For some time Jacob and Stephen Maturin had been talking about the pleasanter sides of their evening with Mr Wright as they sharpened their instruments on variety of hones and oilstones by the Argand light in the orlop.

It is obtained by plotting vector sums of points on an Argand plane—.