| 释义 |
circumferential, a.|səˌkʌmfəˈrɛnʃ(ɪ)əl|
[f. L. circumferenti-a circumference + -al1.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the circumference.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie God 584 Called Periœci, circumferentiall inhabitants. 1645City Alarum 9 Circumferentiall deliberations without any fixed center. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 158 The circumferential inscription upon the reverse. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 824 Circumferential Lines leading to this Center. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. xvii. 383 How much a Circular or Circumferential Line is greater than a strait Line drawn through the Centre. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. vii. (1878) 173 The circumferential flowers have their corollas much more developed than those of the centre. 1882Nature XXVII. 35 Strength [of a gun] to resist a bursting strain, which is called circumferential strength.
†2. Circuitous, roundabout, indirect. Obs.
1662Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 125 Circumferential devices. Ibid. III. 406 He preferred death in a direct line before a circumferential passage thereunto.
Hence circumferentially adv., in a circumferential way; in or upon the circumference.
1863Huxley Man's Place Nat. §2. 62 The yelk becomes circumferentially indented. 1882Mayne Reid in N.Y. Tribune 24 May 8 Dealing with the larger limbs, he..notches them circumferentially. |