Titer vs Taper - What's the difference?
titer | taper |
A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
* ~1603 , William Shakespeare, ''Othello, Act I, scene I, line 157:
* 1913 ,
A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object
A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
To make thinner or narrower at one end.
* 1851 ,
To diminish gradually.
As nouns the difference between titer and taper
is that titer is (analytical chemistry) the concentration of a substance as determined by titration while taper is a slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light or taper can be (weaving) one who operates a tape machine.As verbs the difference between titer and taper
is that titer is to measure a concentration, especially by means of titration while taper is to make thinner or narrower at one end.taper
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) taper, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- strike on the tinder, ho!/ Give me a taper .
- Love used to carry a bow, you know,
- But now he carries a taper ;
- It is either a length of wax aglow,
- Or a twist of lighted paper.
- the taper of a spire.
- The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.
Derived terms
* taperwiseVerb
(en verb)- Though true cylinders without — within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.