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dzܳè
[doo-zee-em, doo-zyem]
noun
plural
dzܳès(in Swiss watchmaking) the 12th part of a ligne, used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dzܳè1
Example Sentences
Si je pouvais encore de mon cerveau Tirer cinq vers, l'ouvrage serait beau; Mais cependant je suis dedans l'onzième: Et si je crois que je fais le dzܳè, En voilà treize ajustés au niveau.
Les Normands et les Arabes sont les seules nations qui, jusqu'au commencement du dzܳè siècle, aient partagé la gloire des grandes expéditions maritimes, le goût des aventures étranges, la passion du pillage et des conquêtes éphémères.
In the older methods of watchmaking it was a very common rule to say, let the height of the incline of the tooth be one-seventh of the outer diameter of the cylinder, and at the same time the trade was furnished with no tools except a clumsy douzieme gage; but with micrometer calipers which read to one-thousandths of an inch such rules can be definitely carried into effect and not left to guess work.
This measurement can be got by removing both end stones and taking the distance with a Boley gage or a douzieme caliper.
Bergeron en a donné une traduction dans son recueil des voyages faits pendant le dzܳè siècle et les trois suivans.
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