0 a small cover, usually made of metal or plastic, worn to protect the finger that pushes the needle when sewing -- （缝纫用的）顶针，针箍
Determination of water absorbed dose in a carbon ion beam using thimble ionization chambers.
It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beer mats, or antique thimbles.
Approximately 4 g is the upper limit on sample size for the thimble size used.
The mass difference of the thimble before and after extraction was assumed to be the lost lipid fraction, and was determined to 0.1 mg.
Oven-dried seeds were blended into a fine meal, and a sample of known mass was placed in a cellulose extraction thimble of diameter 18 mm and depth 55 mm.
When the actual glimpses of it that he gets are got according to the thimble recipe, they satisfy his acquired expectation-propensities; and this is his espying the thimble.
He could use his thimble to undo all the robes.
He is keeping his case undisclosed like the old thimble rigging man.
