单词 | fly-through |
释义 | fly-throughn.adj. A. n. 1. Astronautics. A flight by a spacecraft through a particular area, esp. the tail of a comet, for the purpose of observation. Cf. fly-by n. b, fly-past n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > a flight through air or space > over or past fly-past1914 flyover1931 fly-by1953 overflight1958 fly-through1976 society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight > course or trajectory of spacecraft > close approach to a celestial body fly-by1960 fly-through1976 1976 Aviation Week 8 Mar. 38 The reconnaissance of comets should begin with a first fly-through in the early 1980s, followed by a rendezvous mission in the late 1990s. 1982 Jrnl. Astronaut. Sci. 30 307 Dust and gas samples are collected during the high-velocity..flythrough of Halley, and then returned to a high-apogee Earth orbit. 1996 Science 31 May 1313/3 (note) The total molecular production rates and the heliocentric distances were comparable for Halley during the Giotto flythrough. 2. A computer-animated simulation of what would be seen if one were to fly through a particular (real or imaginary) environment or object; (also) one which allows a user to explore all aspects of a virtual three-dimensional model of such an environment or object. ΚΠ 1988 Re: Siggraph88 & a Deal in comp.sys.mac (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Aug. All they did was a fly-through of a 3-d Julia Set. 1991 What Personal Computer Dec. 11/5 The graphics aren't as good as alternatives like PGA Tour Golf (there's no fly-through yet), but it does have good points. 1995 Leisure Managem. July 46/1 This year's Judge Dredd film has a chase sequence that is fun to ride even without a motion base, and the new Lawnmower Man sequel has a number of fly throughs which might work well in a ride film. 1996 Humanities Computing in Oxf. Jan. 2/3 The CD-ROM includes..three-dimensional fly-throughs of the Qumran site. 1999 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. g14/4 There is a company..whose sole business is building architectural fly-throughs for business clients. B. adj. (attributive). Of or designating a fly-through. ΚΠ 1983 Science 28 Jan. 349/2 The in situ mass spectrometer measurements that will be made by the Halley fly-through missions. 1992 MacWorld June 129/2 Spider Vision, a refined method of controlling fly-through animations. 2001 Computer Aided Surg. 6 77 The rendering system used allows the generation of fly-through sequences for the entire ventricular system in real time. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1976 |
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