Definition of Mires
1. mire [v] - See also: mire
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mires
Literary usage of Mires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Refraction and how to refract: Including Sections on Optics, Retinoscopy by James Thorington (1907)
"If, however, when the secondary position is reached and the catoptric image of
the mires with the steps has encroached upon the catoptric ..."
2. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat by George Edmund De Schweinitz, Burton Alexander Randall (1899)
"Through the center of this disk projects the telescope, and just below it the
arm, placed horizontally, is shown, with the two mires upon it, the fixed min; ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1920)
"A horizontal black line bisects both mires. The left mire is usually fixed, while
the right is movable. Artificial light is used to illuminate the mires, ..."
4. The Refraction of the Eye: Including a Complete Treatise on Opthalmometry by Achilles Edward Davis (1900)
"The advantage of having both mires move instead of one is that in so doing both
mires are kept the same distance from the center of the arc, ..."
5. Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals, and Man by Ralph Nevill, Charles Edward Jerningham (1909)
"A repartee made to mires—at that time a celebrated, and subsequently a ...
When in the full flush of his prosperity mires was appointed a Chevalier of the ..."
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