单词 | curvilinearly |
释义 | curvilinearlyadv. So as to be curvilinear (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [adverb] > curved line compassedly1556 curvilinearly1715 1715 E. Barlow Meteorol. Ess. ii. ii. 62 That Tumour, which ought after a special manner to resemble It, consisting of Water, which must be Curvilinearly circumscribed, and yet be neither Circular, nor of any of the Conick-Sections. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. xii. 218 The arrow acts in three manners; rectilinearly, curvilinearly, and perpendicularly; the musket-ball in one only, the rectilinear. 1923 U.S. Patent 1,463,888 1/1 The opening through which the bolt passes is curvilinearly cupped to fit the curved inner surface of the bolt head. 2003 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 90 1255 At higher wind speeds, the leaves flutter and are entirely streamlined, and the stems curvilinearly bend. 2014 K. B. Armitage Marmot Biol. vi. 101 Mass change, the difference between immergence and emergence mass, is curvilinearly related to body length. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1715 |
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