Phalange

[fælændʒ]

解釋/意思:

n. a phalanx of a digit: any of the joints of an insect's tarsus: a bundle of stamens joined by their filaments: a socialistic community in Fourier's dream of an ideal arrangement of society consisting of 1800 persons living in a phalansté‘¢e—generally in pl. the usual sing. being Phā′lanx (q.v.).—adjs. Phalan′gal Phalan′gēal Phalan′gial Phalan′gian; Phalan′giform; Phalanstē′rian.—ns. Phalanstē′rianism Phalan′sterism; Phal′anstery the dwelling of the phalange in the ideal social system of Fourier (1772-1837) a vast structure in the midst of a square league of cultivated land.

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