单词 | time triangle |
释义 | > as lemmastime triangle time triangle n. a triangle regarded as representing time in some way, or having a side that represents time. ΚΠ 1920 R. S. Williams Princ. Metallogr. i. 6 The point at which the ordinate of the time triangle has the same length as the unknown time interval indicates the percentage composition of the alloy. 1922 A. S. Eddington Theory of Relativity 22 The terrestrial observer can have a space-triangle..; he can also have a ‘time-triangle’, formed by three events on different dates, whose sides he must measure with clocks. 1950 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 4 218 The astronomical spherical triangle is divided into two right-angled triangles... The first, or time-triangle, is solved directly. 1980 tr. C. Wolf Patterns of Childhood 284 Today, like any other day, is also the tip of a time triangle, whose two sides lead to two other, to any number of other dates. < as lemmas |
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