单词 | pointable |
释义 | pointableadj. 1. Capable of being pointed out; that can be pointed to or at; (hence) visible, apparent. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible senec1175 well seenc1175 naked?c1225 well isenec1275 bremec1340 evidenta1382 apparent1393 palpable?1435 open1478 pointablea1555 faira1568 full-eyed1581 unmasked1590 eyeful?1611 plain1613 prospecta1640 unovercloudeda1658 intuitive1801 unmystified1822 shroudless1841 unforeshortened1846 trenchant1849 focusable1889 a1555 J. Bradford All Exam. (1561) sig. Kiiij In Helyas time both in Israel, and els where, Gods churche was not poyntable: and therefore cryed he oute that he was lefte alone. 1939 I. Berlin in Mind 48 525 ‘This patch is green’ is thus a synthetic proposition equivalent to ‘this (ideally pointable to) portion of my sense field is green’. 2003 Re: Why is SF -not- popular? in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Oct. I twice posted asking if anyone had any definite, pointable-at evidence of what..Oprah had said. 2. Capable of being pointed or aimed; spec. (of a telescope, gun, etc.) that can be pointed at an object; easy to point, rotatable. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [adjective] > given direction towards a mark > able to be pointable1890 1890 Cent. Dict. Pointable, capable of being pointed. 1963 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 49 766 The large mass would have to be pointable to a fraction of one minute of arc. 1980 Sci. Amer. Apr. 64/3 A pointable telescope with an aperture of 2.5 centimeters (one inch) that uses the spin motion of the spacecraft to scan an object. 2003 Machine Design (Nexis) 10 July 44 The robotic arm, guided by a fully pointable, stereo-imaging camera mounted on its ‘wrist’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1555 |
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