Britannica definition
Short form of the Encyclopædia Britannica; the oldest English-language general encyclopedia.
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Ingram in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is still a valuable historical account.
Grubb's duplex micrometer is described in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
These instruments thus produced, in Haydn's and Beethoven's times, a very remarkable but closely limited series of effects, which, as Sir George Macfarren pointed out in the article "Music" in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, gave them a peculiar character and function in strongly asserting the main notes of the key.