单词 | anomalistic |
释义 | anomalisticadj. 1. Astronomy and Astronautics. Of or relating to the angular distance of an orbiting celestial object or (in later use also) an artificial satellite from one of its apsides or (occasionally) from any point on its orbit (see anomaly n. 3). anomalistic month n. the time taken by the moon to complete a full orbit of the earth beginning and ending at its perigee or apogee. anomalistic year n. the time taken by the earth (or another planet) to complete its elliptical orbit of the sun beginning and ending at its perihelion or aphelion.Cf. sidereal month n., sidereal year n., tropical month n., tropical year n., etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [noun] > anomalistic year anomalistic year1715 the world > the universe > planet > position of planet > [adjective] > anomaly anomalistic1715 anomalistical1715 the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > lunar month > [noun] > anomalistic lunar month1594 anomalistic month1768 1715 in W. Whiston Astron. Lect. viii. 95 The Anomalistic Year was determin'd to be different from, and greater than, the Sidereal. 1768 S. Horsley in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 179 The duplicate proportion of the periodic month to the anomalistic month. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. xlv. 280 The anomalistic period of Saturn is increasing, at present, about a day in a century. 1899 C. A. Young Text-bk. Gen. Astron. (ed. 2) vii. 16 The so-called anomalistic revolution..is..8 hours 14 minutes longer than the moon's nodical revolution. 1968 Isis 59 9/1 Once the Keplerian laws are established or assumed, it becomes possible to correct the eccentricity on the basis of the maximum anomalistic difference. 1988 H. A. Klein Sci. Measurem. (rev. ed.) xv. 154 Finally, there is the anomalistic month measured from one perigee of the Moon's orbit to the next... The anomalistic month, with 27.554 6 mean solar days, is very slightly less than 2 days shorter than the synodic month. 1995 D. Roddy Satellite Communications (ed. 2) ii. 86 A satellite in exactly polar orbit has a slight eccentricity... The anomalistic period is 110 min. 2007 Astron. Almanac 2009 (U.S. Govt. Printing Office & H.M.S.O.) M15 The anomalistic year is approximately 25 minutes longer than the tropical year. 2. Of the nature of an anomaly; deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected; anomalous. Also with to: dissimilar to; apart or separate from (cf. anomalous adj. 2). ΚΠ 1802 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) Anomalistic, irregular, out of rule. 1853 Househ. Words 25 June 390/1 Many here are devout-minded Flamands, who have been crossed in love..and who then, in the bitterness of their wounded feelings, cast themselves into the convent for life. Others, who feel within themselves something discordant with, and anomalistic to, the every-day world. 1910 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 29 July 589/1 Everyone having a sincere regard for the truth and a desire to see the facts of nature correctly represented will be glad to see that the anomalistic character of certain results are being pointed out. 1988 Amer. Art Jrnl. 20 84/2 The canvas support and large scale of this work are completely anomalistic in terms of the artist's early production which generally utilized small wood panels. 2016 Network World (Nexis) 20 Oct. Any anomalistic traffic can indicate a breach [sc. of network security], and the security team can begin the remediation process. 3. Linguistics and Philosophy. Of or relating to the view that language operates in an arbitrary and anomalous manner, rather than according to a strict logic and structure; characteristic of the anomalists (see anomalist n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [adjective] > terms relating to language change or development primitive1687 inorganic1861 polygenetic1863 anomalistic1881 sandhi1888 language contact1911 processual1918 neo-linguistic1937 superstrate1958 adstrate1963 adstratal1968 1881 R. Brown Language 13 (heading) Errors of the conventional (Anomalistic) and connexional (Analogistic) theories of language. 1919 Classical Q. 13 34 The ‘catholicon’ was in the eyes of the analogist a universal rule.., while those whose tendencies were anomalistic whittled the term down to a general principle. 1970 A. D. Scaglione Ars Grammatica ii. 79 He also deserves credit for injecting a spirit of skeptical balance by showing how every analogistic rule had its anomalistic counterpart. 2003 D. Blank & C. Atherton in B. Inwood Cambr. Compan. Stoics xii. 316 The standard association of Stoics with an ‘anomalistic’ grammar is incorrect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adj.1715 |
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