单词 | sphereometer |
释义 | sphereometern. rare. 1. Nautical. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > device for spherical calculations spherograph1858 sphereometer1862 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 2775 A ‘sphereometer’, for facilitating the practice of great circle sailing. 1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 361 Sphereometer, a contrivance ‘for facilitating great circle sailing by obviating abstruse calculations’. Thesaurus » Categories » 2. = spherometer n. (Knight, 1884). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1862 |
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