FILAR Definition & Meaning

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filar

[ fahy-ler ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or relating to a thread or threads.
having threads or the like.

filar

/ ˈ�ڲ�ɪ��ə /

adjective

of thread
(of an optical instrument) having fine threads across the eyepiece forming a reticle or set of cross wires

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Other �y��vlog Forms

��t��·�ھ�l�� adjective

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of filar¹

1870–75; < Latin ��ī�� ( um ) a thread + -ar ¹

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of filar¹

C19: from Latin ��ī��um thread

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To Bouguer in 1748 is due the true conception of measurement by double image without the auxiliary aid of a filar micrometer, viz. by changing the distance between two object-glasses of equal focus.

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According to Prof. Skeat it is derived from the Span. filigrana, from “filar, to spin, and grano, the grain or principal fibre of the material.”

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Place the filar micrometer and the stage micrometer in their respective positions.

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The method of observing which Brünnow employed was quite different from that of Struve, though the filar micrometer was used in both cases.

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For several thousand years the stars have been called "fixed," but the fine rulings of the filar micrometer tell a different story.

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