Lituus

[litjuәs]

解釋/意思:

(n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

(n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

(n.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.

編輯:桑德拉

解釋/意思:

n. an augur's staff with recurved top: a spiral of similar form.—adjs. Lit′uāte forked with the points turned outward; Lit′uiform.

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