单词 | rubriform |
释义 | rubriformadj. rare. Now historical. In Newton's terminology: (of a light ray) that produces the colour red. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] redeOE reodeOE ruddya1398 reddy?c1400 purple1415 rougea1425 redly1486 gules1503 red-coloured1547 guly1592 blushing1597 angrya1616 rubric1623 minious1646 nacarinea1648 ruddle1649 rubriform1704 carbuncly?1730 blushful1804 envermeiled1822 ablush1852 flammulated1872 pyrrhous1890 1704 I. Newton Opticks i. ii. 134 Of those rays which pass close by the Snow the rubriform will be least refracted, and so come to the Eye in the directest lines. 1980 I. B. Cohen Newtonian Revol. (1983) iii. 137 Another is that ‘rubriform’ (or red-producing) rays move faster in vacuo than blue-producing rays. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1704 |
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