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n. (tick mark English)
Usage examples of "tick marks".
But like the finest set of tick marks on a ruler, the individual up-and-down wave cycles are the finest units making up the wave-train, and therefore by examining solely how they are disrupted we can determine the rock's location only to within a margin of error equal to the length of the wave cycles, that is, the wave's wavelength.
Latitude and longitude tick marks were shown on the outer boundaries, and the words Sydney, Australia appeared in small letters in the bottom left-hand corner.
Most of the tick marks were in the first two boxes, with only one showing a tick in the last box.
The image was simple but informative: sets of tick marks, from one to sixteen, each set paired with alien symbols.
Two more were handed him for testing and received his approval before he turned to his checklist and added two tick marks to it.
He got his depth, measured from the canyon's edge, by having Vosnesensky read off the tick marks on the winch's tether.
The Dallas' course track showed up as a convoluted red line, with tick marks displayed at fifteen-minute intervals.
He pointed out that the shelves had tick marks on them, each about twenty inches apart.