单词 | alignation |
释义 | alignationn. Now rare. = alignment n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality or fact of being in a line (with) > [noun] alignment1742 plumb1748 allineation1779 alignation1830 collinearity1863 1830 Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 505 Almost all the accidents presented in the phenomena of the mountain chains of the Pyrenees, whether in their grouping, their alignation [printed alegnation], their departition, [etc.]. 1866 G. A. Sala Trip to Barbary 331 Alignation is doing its best to spoil Oran structurally. 1911 G. Rawlence Highwayman xix. 155 The letter—written in a large scratchy hand, difficult to decipher, wavy in alignation—fluttered from Sir Michael's hand. 1962 Times 13 Aug. 12/4 The gradual alignation of national tariffs to a common tariff. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1830 |
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