Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Fitted with or involving the use of two threads or wires.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Two-threaded; having two threads.
- noun A micrometer fitted with two threads.
- noun An electric circuit doubled back upon itself so that the conductor is closely adjacent to the return-conductor and the inductance of the circuit is thereby reduced to a minimum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads.
- adjective an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a
filar micrometer .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
two wires ,threads orfilaments
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or using two filaments
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Examples
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Round and round to build a bifilar spiral 37 wt-% Casimir etalons.
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The case centered around a bifilar weight assembly, a block of engineered tungsten, which the Army uses to reduce vibration on the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
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One of these, given by a horizontal pendulum at Rocca di Papa near Rome, is reproduced in Fig. 71; while the curve of the bifilar pendulum at
A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899
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Two coils that resonant at the same frequency tend to exchange energy efficiently and by winding them in a bifilar manner increase this efficiency a lot more.
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What does the electromagnetic field around a flat spiral coil or bifilar coil look like? en Español
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What does the electromagnetic field around a flat spiral coil or bifilar coil look like? en Español
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Thanks to Biotsavart, and to the paramagnetic particles that "draw" on the screen of the Etch-A-Sketch, by simply inserting tiny bifilar coils inside the red box, and wiring the coils to USB cables, after a little electronic tinkering, we were able to automatically create amazing and awe-inspiring Etch-A-Sketch drawings and creations way beyond anything we'd ever seen before.
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Italy passed, the tale was taken up by magnetographs at Potsdam and Wilhelmshaven, Pawlovsk (near St. Petersburg), Copenhagen, Utrecht, and Parc St. Maur (near Paris); by horizontal pendulums at St.assburg and Shide (in the Isle of Wight), and by a bifilar pendulum at Edinburgh.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899
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a bifilar manner increase this efficiency a lot more.
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a bifilar manner increase this efficiency a lot more.
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