单词 | Corona |
释义 | Corona1/kəˈrōnə /A city in southwestern California, southwest of Riverside; population 149,923 (est. 2008). corona2/kəˈrəʊnə /noun (plural coronae /kəˈrəʊniː/) 1 Astronomy The rarefied gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars. The sun’s corona is normally visible only during a total solar eclipse, when it is seen as an irregularly shaped pearly glow surrounding the darkened disc of the moon.With the face of the Sun blocked by the Moon during a solar eclipse, the corona shines with the brightness of a full Moon....
1.1 (also corona discharge) Physics The glow around a conductor at high potential.In this process, the difficult-to-bond plastic is exposed to a corona discharge, usually in the presence of air and at atmospheric pressure....
1.2A small circle of light seen round the sun or moon, due to diffraction by water droplets.Another effect that is caused by the interaction of the sun and water droplets, is the corona....
2 Anatomy A crown or crown-like structure.The heart muscle has its own blood supply coming from a crown or corona of blood vessels that circle the heart, sending down branches to various parts of the muscle....
3 Botany The cup-shaped or trumpet-shaped outgrowth at the centre of a daffodil or narcissus flower.In the flowers, corolla, corona and anther structure are similar, but the shape of the pollen tetrads in the two genera is different....
4A circular chandelier in a church.The curious structure in the front tea room was a rectilinear framework of wood with an elaborate wrought-iron flower stand on top of it and a circular wrought iron corona above that. 5 Architecture A part of a cornice having a broad vertical face. OriginMid 16th century (in sense 5): from Latin, 'wreath, crown'. Rhymescorona3/kəˈrəʊnə /noun A long, straight-sided cigar.Eventually all the beautiful people were puffing robustos and coronas while schmoozing, partying and sauntering among the paparazzi....
OriginLate 19th century: from Spanish La Corona, literally 'the crown', originally a proprietary name. |
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