Definition of Scalepan

1. Noun. The pan of a scale, in or on which items to be weighed are placed. ¹

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Definition of Scalepan

1. a pan on a weighing scale [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scalepan

scalenectomy
scalenes
scaleni
scalenohedra
scalenohedral
scalenohedron
scalenohedrons
scalenotomy
scalenus
scalenus anterior
scalenus anterior syndrome
scalenus medius
scalenus minimus muscle
scalenus posterior
scalenus syndrome
scalepan (current term)
scalepans
scaleproof
scaler
scalers
scales
scaletail
scaletails
scaleup
scaleups
scaley
scalic
scalier
scaliest
scaliness

Literary usage of Scalepan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physical Laboratory Guide by Frederick Condit Reeve (1912)
"... of scales for such an instrument to read in the Metric system, or vice versa. EXPERIMENT 4 Object. — To make a weighing with a scalepan balance. ..."

2. Physical Laboratory Guide by Frederick Condit Reeve (1912)
"... for such an instrument to read in the Metric system, or vice versa. EXPERIMENT 4 Object. — To make a weighing with a scalepan balance. ..."

3. Dynamics of Machinery by Gaetano Lanza (1911)
"As to the weights in the scalepan, Webber so locates the knife- edge from ... it follows that two pounds in the scalepan would correspond to 1 X 10 = 10 ..."

4. Dynamics of Machinery by Gaetano Lanza (1911)
"As to the weights in the scalepan, Webber so locates the knife- edge from ... it follows that two pounds in the scalepan would correspond to 1 X 10 = 10 ..."

5. Dynamics of Machinery by Gaetano Lanza (1911)
"As to the weights in the scalepan, Webber so locates the knife- edge from ... it follows that two pounds in the scalepan would correspond to 1 X 10 = 10 ..."

6. New High School Algebra by Webster Wells, Walter Wilson Hart (1912)
"... be added to the right scalepan, and 8 Ib. of sugar to the left ... any number of pounds of weight be ""** removed from the right scalepan and an equal ..."

7. Principles of Accounting by Stephen Gilman (1916)
"When one weight is put in his scalepan representing this obligation, ... Another scalepan (which may be labeled "accounts receivable") must be hung on the ..."

8. Experiments in Psychical Science, Levitation, Contact, and the Direct Voice by William Jackson Crawford (1919)
"Effect on medium's weight when the base of the cantilever rests on the scalepan of a spring balance under levitated table 41 7. Effect on medium's weight ..."

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