(Australia, New Zealand) Hard dark stone crushed into small pieces used in surfacing roads, for ballast in railway tracks, etc; gravel; road metal.

Synonym of Czochralski process

Alternative form of clapometer

(mathematics) An iterative numerical method for finding a root of an equation f(x)=0, using a succession of roots of secant lines to better approximate the root.

(mathematics) A root-finding method that applies to any continuous functions for which one knows two values with opposite signs, and consists of repeatedly bisecting the interval defined by these values and then selecting the subinterval in which the function changes sign, and therefore must contain a root.

(mathematics, computing theory) An algorithm for polynomial evaluation that employs Horner's rule.

Dated form of ammeter.

Alternative form of electricity meter

Dated form of ammeter.

A silver staining technique used to visualize nervous tissue under light microscopy.