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Gramme, Gram  n.  The unit of mass or weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4.
Gram degree, or Gramme degree (Physics), a unit of heat, being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water one degree centigrade.
Gram equivalent (Electrolysis), that quantity of the metal which will replace one gram of hydrogen.


Gramme  n.  Same as Gram the weight.





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"Gramme" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the machine-shop, where we had several platinum lamps installed in series. When Edison had finished explaining the principles and details of the lamp, he asked Kruesi to let the dynamo machine run. It was of the Gramme type, as our first dynamo of the Edison design was not yet finished. Edison then ordered the 'juice' to be turned on slowly. To-day I can see those lamps rising to a cherry red, like glowbugs, and hear ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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... gramme is digested for two hours, at a temperature just below the boiling point, with 100 cubic centimeters of a solution containing 5 per cent. of crystallized carbonate of soda. It is then removed from the sand bath and allowed to settle. When the supernatant liquid ...
— Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel • Samuel William Johnson
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... led through Liddesdale, "And thirty horsemen guarding me, "And Christie Gramme been at my back, "Sae soon as he had set ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
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... Espronceda did not intend on account of the "obstructing syllable" which that accentuation would give to the verse) to llegue. I take llegue to be the subjunctive of emphatic asseveration. See Bello-Cuervo, "Gramtica Castellana," paragraph 463. Other editors are perhaps right in interpreting the passage differently. They suppress the period after maravillas, the exclamation point before Que, and write llegu. This makes equally good sense and is just as grammatical, but ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
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... Gram., 17 (vita M. Verri Flacci), is always to be cited as proof of the forum, and that it had a well-marked upper and lower portion; Statuam habet (M. Verrius Flaccus) Praeneste in superiore fori parte circa ...
— A Study Of The Topography And Municipal History Of Praeneste • Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
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