单词 | substyle |
释义 | substylen. The line on which the style or gnomon of a sundial stands. Also substyle line. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of pinOE gnomon1546 style1577 cock1585 hour-line1593 substyle1593 index1594 noon-line1596 incliner1638 substylara1652 substylar linea1652 staff1669 nodus1678 node1704 stylus1796 noon-mark1842 sun line1877 1593 T. Fale Horologiographia f. 20 Extend your compasses, the one foote being placed in F. in the line of the Substile toward C. unto H. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 704 To find the true Hour distances upon the Plain from the Substiles. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §44. 334 That they may be distinguished, and not confounded with the Substyle. 1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. 203 The line on which the stile or gnomon stands (commonly called the substile-line). 1805 D. Brewster Ferguson's Lect. Mech. (new ed.) II. x. 13 In the south-west plane, the substile-line falls among the afternoon hours. 1873 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 19 286 Between the figures..is inscribed the abbreviated name of the maker, ‘Res : Pat : Fecit’; and below this, on the sub-style, the letters p/ t. h. 1973 A. E. Waugh Sundials x. 80 This value for noon always equals the sub-style distance. 2009 E. Schmeidler in G. D. Roth Handbk. Pract. Astron. x. 263 SL marked with the symbol γ is the angle between style and substyle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1593 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。