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Definition of Bifilar
1. Adjective. Having or using two filaments. "A bifilar suspension of a waving part of an instrument"
Definition of Bifilar
1. a. Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.
Definition of Bifilar
1. Adjective. Having two wires, threads or filaments ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bifilar
1. having two threads [adj]
Medical Definition of Bifilar
1. Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance. Bifilar micrometer (often called a bifilar), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; more commonly called a filar micrometer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bifilar
Literary usage of Bifilar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"History oft/ie Horizontal and bifilar Pendulums. ... the Committee have purchased
two bifilar pendulums from the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company. ..."
2. An Introduction to Physical Measurements: With Appendices on Absolute by Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (1899)
"A magnet of polar separation £ (-| of its length) is allowed to act on the bifilar
variometer from a sufficient distance r to the north or south, ..."
3. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"As the bifilar suspension is used in many electrical instruments, we shall
investigate it more in detail. The general appearance of the suspension is shewn ..."
4. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"Such a bifilar suspension is of course unstable, as the trapeze tends to turn
round towards assuming the arrangement of two parallel or uncrossed chains, ..."
5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"and in the Sunspot Area,' assigning as the length of that period 10'45 years (xxvii.
663, 1876), with a ' Note on the bifilar Magnetometer' ..."
6. Treatise on Physics by Andrew Gray (1901)
"couple by torsion shows that for silver, gold, and copper wires (the double wire
in the bifilar and the single wire in the unifilar) just strong enough to ..."
7. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1877)
"QUADRANT ELECTROMETER WITH bifilar SUSPENSION* During the last nine months we
have been regularly using a Thomson's Quadrant Electrometer, that arrived in ..."
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