Slide Rule Definition

noun
A once-common manual device like a ruler but with a central sliding piece, both parts being marked with various number scales: used to find square roots, logarithms, quotients, etc.
Webster's New World
A device consisting of two logarithmically scaled rules mounted to slide along each other so that multiplication, division, and other more complex computations are reduced to the mechanical equivalent of addition or subtraction.
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Noun

Singular:
slide rule
Plural:
slide-rules

Slide Rule Sentence Examples

  • When, by practice with logarithms, we become familiar with the correspondence between additions of length on the logarithmic scale (on a slide-rule) and multiplication of numbers in the natural scale (including fractional numbers), A /5 acquires a definite meaning as the number corresponding to the extremity of a length x, on the logarithmic scale, such that 5 corresponds to the extremity of 2X.

  • A slide rule should be used for the arithmetical operations, as it works to the accuracy obtainable in practice.

  • The rotating slide rule bezel is bi directional and and non ratchet.

  • The Chronomat is introduced in 1942 - the first chronograph to be fitted with a circular slide rule.

  • It measures short times and is equipped with a "navigation computer," which is a circular slide rule that handles airborne navigation calculations such as climbing times and fuel consumption rates.

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