| 单词 | dialling scale | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasdialling scale   dialling scale  n. now chiefly historical a graduated scale from which hour lines may be marked off in the design and construction of a sundial; (also) the scale of hour lines on a completed sundial. ΚΠ 1658    J. Collins Sector on Quadrant 277  				On the left edge is placed the Dialling scale of hours 4 Inches long. 1768    Philos. Trans. 1767 		(Royal Soc.)	 57 389  				A new Method of constructing Sun-Dials..without the Assistance of Dialing Scales. 1808    S. Webber Mathematics 		(ed. 2)	 II. 362  				To draw a horizontal dial by means of the dialing scales. 1902    R. E. Middleton et al.  Treat. Surv. II. xiv. 214  				Dials may be constructed by means of a terrestrial globe, by dialling scales, or by stereographic projection. 2005    M. Lennox-Boyd Sundials 		(2006)	 55/3 		(caption)	  				A dialling scale, c.1700, by John Rowle, brass. < as lemmas  | 
	
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