单词 | suborbital |
释义 | suborbitaladj.n. A. adj. 1. Zoology and Anatomy. Situated below or under the orbit of the eye.The usual term in human anatomy is now infraorbital. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [adjective] > socket of eye orbital?1541 orbitary1703 superciliary1704 orbitar1726 suborbitary1733 infra-orbitar1741 supraorbital1767 supraorbitar1775 supra-orbitary1794 suborbitar1797 suborbital1803 infra-orbital1806 infra-orbitary1822 lachrymonasal1837 interorbital1852 preorbital1852 transorbital1852 orbitosphenoid1854 exorbital1876 periorbital1890 1803 C. Bell Anat. Human Body III. i. iv. 130 Branches of the opthalmic [sic], pterigoid, palatine, and suborbital nerves pass to the membrane of the nose. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 291 The suborbital branch of the fifth pair [of nerves]. 1854 R. G. Latham Native Races Russ. Empire 28 The skin brown or brunette, and the suborbital portion of the face flattened. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xviii. 280 The so-called tear-sacks or suborbital pits. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 348/2 The suborbital gland or ‘crumen’ of Antelopes and Deer. 1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xv. 420 The quadrato-jugal is the hindmost of the three components of the sub-orbital bar. 1968 Copeia No. 1. 51/2 Scales on suborbital bar developing slowly with age. 2006 K. D. Rose Beginning Age Mammals xiv. 295/1 Particularly characteristic of entelodont skulls are the widely flaring zygomatic arches with prominent suborbital flanges. 2. Chiefly Astronautics. Of a trajectory which passes from earth into space: that does not go right round the earth; having or relating to such a trajectory. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > secondary planet, satellite > [adjective] > movement suborbital1950 synchronous1961 1950 Jrnl. Interplanetary Soc. 9 266 If sub-orbital techniques were employed as normally envisaged, colossal quantities of propellant would still be required to get small amounts of fuel into position. 1967 New Scientist 16 Nov. 424/1 The Soviet Union seems to have developed a sub-orbital missile, and the implications of the new weapon have been quickly realized. 1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 28/2 The impact is sufficiently catastrophic to vaporize large amounts of surface and subsurface rock, the gases being ejected into suborbital trajectories. 1994 J. Barnes Mother of Storms (1995) i. 3 When the magnetic catapult on the mothership throws his little spaceplane forward..he'll sail up and away into a high suborbital trajectory over the Pole. 2007 Esquire Sept. 94/1 The mainstream tourist market will be for sub-orbital flights to the Karman line. B. n. Zoology. A suborbital bone, scale, etc.; spec. each of several bones below the orbit of the eye in many fishes. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > cartilage > cartilage of specific parts > [noun] > of eye suborbital1824 suborbitar1828 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > socket of eye > parts of or associated with eyebrow1583 meditullium1683 superciliary ridge1726 superciliary arch1733 supraorbital1797 lacrimal1822 suborbital1824 suborbitary1825 suborbitar1828 superciliary1831 eyebrow ridge1837 eye cap1837 orbitosphenoid1847 prefrontal1851 superorbital1854 jugum sphenoidale1887 ungual bone1888 1824 Jrnl. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 4 81 Eyes of moderate size; the suborbitals spinous on both edges. 1897 A. Günther in M. H. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. (ed. 2) 709 The first suborbital is narrow, much narrower than the second and third, which nearly entirely cover the cheek. 1941 Copeia No. 2. 51/1 Three internasal scales posteriorly, five anteriorly..; infralabials 13–12; keeled suborbitals 5–4. 2006 C. B. Paris-Limouzy et al. in W. J. Richards Early Stages Atlantic Fishes II. clii. 1788/1 Head spination is weak (except for some Chrominae) with serration on the suborbitals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1803 |
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