| 单词 | external contact |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexternal contact a. Situated or lying outside; pertaining to, or connected with, the outside or outer portion of anything. external angle: one made by producing outwardly a side of a figure. external contact: (see quot. 1867). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [adjective] outwardeOE outwithc1225 outa1300 outermorea1425 withoutforthc1503 exterial1528 outforth?1541 butc1570 exterior1570 extrinsical1594 extrinsic1613 externala1616 outside1634 exoteric1662 extern1666 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. vii. 3 Her vertues graced with externall gifts. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 340 If they had swallow'd poyson, 'twould appeare By externall swelling. View more context for this quotation 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vii. 163 Externall I call those parts which are without the Spheare it selfe. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) External angles. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. at Angle The external angle of a triangle is equal to both the internal opposite ones taken together. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 227 Having those organs free on the external edge. 1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 83 All the external angles of the polygon must also be equal to four right angles. 1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 335 The External or Cellular coat is dense and resisting. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. i. 50 External Glands..may be..divided into stalked..or not stalked. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. External contact, in a transit of Mercury or Venus over the sun's disc, this expression means the first touch of the planet's and sun's edges, before any part of the former is projected on the disc of the luminary. < as lemmas |
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