| 单词 | the rhomboidal net |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Rhomboidal Net 5. Astronomy. With the and capital initial. More fully the Rhomboidal Net. (The English name of) the constellation Reticulum. Cf. reticule n. 3. [Chiefly as a conscious translation.] ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Reticulum reticulum1811 net1861 reticule1867 Ret1922 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 422/1 Reticulus, or Reticulum Rhomboidale (the rhomboidal network formerly used to divide the field of a telescope), a southern constellation [etc.].] 1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descriptive & Pract. Astron. VII. vi. 312 (table) La Caille, in 1752, added—..Reticulus Rhoimboidalis [sic]. The Rhoimboidal Net. 1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 14/1 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille..introduced the following new constellations:—..Reticulus rhomboidalis (Rhomboidal net). 1964 D. H. Menzel Field Guide Stars & Planets iv. 114 Reticulum (the Net). 1977 P. Moore & P. Collins Astron. Southern Afr. ii. 37 Reticulus [sic] Rhomboidalis (the Rhomboidal Net). 1988 A. Room Dict. Astron. Names 137 Reticulum,..The usual English name for the constellation, however, is The Net. The original full name..was Reticulum Rhomboidalis, ‘the rhomboidal net’, referring to its lozenge shape. 1990 P. S. Harrington Touring Universe through Binoculars vii. 212 Wedged between Hydrus, Horologium, and Dorado in the far southern winter sky is the small constellation Reticulum, the Net. < as lemmas |
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