单词 | overstriking |
释义 | overstrikingn. 1. Numismatics. The action of superimposing a new design over the original design on a coin; (also) a new design superimposed in this way. Cf. overstrike v. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > recoinage or a reimpression recoinage1622 restrike1875 overstrike1932 overstriking1943 1943 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 64 140 The extensive practice of overstriking is itself probably the cause of the curious ‘incuse’ fabric which is peculiar to certain mints in Italy. 1962 R. A. G. Carson Coins 403 The overstriking consisted of an obverse type of the mounted czar. 1991 A. Sharpe in Antiquaries Jrnl. 70 111 If this plating is contemporary with the overstriking it would demonstrate that this type of silvering goes back as early as the third century BC. 2. The action of printing a diacritic or other modifying character over the top of another character; the action of typing two or more characters in the same space. ΚΠ 1967 D. G. Hays Introd. Computational Linguistics iv. 66 With backspace, overstriking becomes possible. 1978 Computer Dec. 43/1 The commands define text lines, character positions, and such functions as character blinking, inversion, underscoring, and over striking. 1983 Pract. Computing Feb. 93/2 If you need a particular facility, write this into the contract. There facilities include superscripts and subscripts, overstriking of letter, [etc.]. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overstrikingadj. Music. rare. Of a piano hammer: constructed so as to strike the string from above. Of a piano's playing mechanism: having hammers so arranged. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [adjective] > types of piano upright1795 overstrung1860 trichord1866 overstriking1880 understriking1880 tin-panny1885 rinky-tink1906 1880 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 646/2 [Pape] repeated the old idea..of an overstriking action—that is, the hammers descending upon the strings. 1995 Fortepianos in pianotech (Electronic mailing list) 5 Feb. It reminded me of our Belt fortepiano which was evidently built to have overstriking hammers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1943adj.1880 |
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