slide rule
滑尺,滑梯尺,滑动规则
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- : a device for performing mathematical calculations, consisting essentially of a ruler having a sliding piece moving along it, both marked with graduated, usually logarithmic, scales: now largely replaced by the electronic calculator.
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The engineers had slide rules and mechanical calculators but didn’t like doing calculations.
Obviously, the first obligation of all liberal democratic governments is to enforce the rule of law.
And so the same creeping rot of the rule of law that the administration has inflicted on immigration now bedevils our drug laws.
Rule 16(c) was a proposed change in the rules at the 1976 Republican Convention.
The rule of law, you see, buckles, bends and sometimes crumbles under the weight of racism, sexism, and classism.
His rule over the country came to an end in 1979 when the director of the KCIA shot Park and his bodyguard to death at dinner.
Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
All elements of expression modify each other, so that no mere rule can cover all cases.
As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.
He set down as the second the golden rule, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them.”
Hence arise factions, dissensions, and loss to their religious interests and work; and these intruders seek to rule the others.