单词 | stereographic |
释义 | stereographicadj. 1. Delineating or representing a solid body on a plane; applied spec. to a kind of projection used in maps, etc., in which the centre of projection is a point on the surface of the sphere, and the whole sphere is represented once on an infinite plane, circles being represented as circles, and the angles being retained. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [adjective] > type of projection orthographic1669 orthographical1673 stereographic1704 isometrical1838 isometric1840 monographic1855 monographical1904 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Stereographick Projection. 1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos A 4 b The Laws of the.. Stereographic..Projection of the Sphere. 1731 I. Greenwood in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 37 68 In the Figures I have attempted the Stereographic Projection of the most considerable Scenes. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 611/1 In those Stereographic Maps, where a..Hemisphere is projected upon a Plan parallel to a Meridian. 1863 J. B. Harbord Gloss. Navigation s.v. The stereographic projection of the sphere is a natural projection of the concavity of the sphere, on a diametral plane as primitive, the eye being placed on the surface at the opposite extremity of the diameter perpendicular to the primitive. 1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. iv. 62 A..chart of Mars on the stereographic projection. 1879 Sir A. R. Clarke in Encycl. Brit. X. 203 Notwithstanding the facility of construction, the stereographic projection is not much used in map-making. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [adjective] > copperplate engraving > plate used for reproducing stereographical1805 stereographic1811 1811 Brit. Patent 3385 (1856) 3 Plates thus constructed, are what I call Perkin's ‘steriographic [sic] steel plates,’ one of which will serve to give as many impressions as would wear out a great number of copper-plates. 3. Pertaining to stereoscopic photography. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [adjective] > stereoscopic stereographic1859 binocular1889 stereo-photo1908 stereophotographic1908 hyperstereoscopic1939 1859 Atlantic Monthly June 748 To render comparison of similar objects, or of any that we may wish to see side by side, easy, there should be a stereographic metre or fixed standard of focal length for the camera lens. 1859 Atlantic Monthly June 748 Already a workman has been travelling about the country with stereographic views of furniture. 4. Pertaining to the use of the stereograph in craniometry. (See stereograph n. 2.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [adjective] > of or pert to drawing equipment > others stereographic1886 stereo-plotting1927 1886 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 26/1 Particular methods of craniometric projections, diverse stereographic proceedings [etc.]..cannot here be mentioned in detail. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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