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Coordinate-Measuring Machine

in astronomy, an instrument for measuring the rectangular coordinates of celestial objects on astrophotographs. Coordinate-measuring machines were first used in the late 19th century as photographic astrometry developed.

It is possible to compute the celestial coordinates of the object under study on the astrophotograph by using the machine to measure the rectangular coordinates of the images of several reference stars with known celestial coordinates and the coordinates of the object. Coordinate-measuring machines are designed to measure one coordinate or two mutually perpendicular coordinates. Semiautomatic coordinate-measuring machines were developed in the 1960’s in which the fixing onto the objects to be measured is done by the experimenter and the reading is taken automatically and recorded on punched card or punched tape. In 1970, British engineers built the first industrial automatic coordinate-measuring machine (a photoelectric measuring machine). When integrated with a computer, this machine makes it possible to automate completely the measurement process; the entire system is called Galaxy. The accuracy of measurements done by modern coordinate-measuring machines after investigation and consideration of all instrument errors is ±0.5 μ. In the USSR, industrial production of coordinate-measuring machines was begun in the 1930’s at the Leningrad Optical Machine Plant. The semiautomatic coordinate-measuring machine manufactured by the Carl Zeiss Company (German Democratic Republic) is common.

E. A. IUROV

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The new functionalities given by the measuring probe and the software extend the scanning probe microscope to a metrological micro/nano coordinate measuring machine (CMM) which also allows 3D measurements conforming to standards to be performed on micro and nano structures.

Nano Measurement in Third Dimension by FARS News Agency

The PC-DMIS software is used in coordinate measuring machines, and Detroit-area Xspect Solutions has carved out market share in the U.

Suit over PC-DMIS settled by Metalworking Insiders' Report

The new facility's inspection cell features state-of-the-art equipment, including optical comparators, coordinate measuring machines, vision systems, and microphites.

Millstone Medical celebrates opening of new facility by Medical Product Outsourcing

Cooperative Plan of V. I. Lenin

cooperative processing

Cooperative Property

Cooperative Socialism

Coopers Rock State Forest

Coopers Ware