单词 | heteronymous |
释义 | heteronymousadj. 1. Having different names, as a pair of correlatives, e.g. husband, wife: opposed to synonymous. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [adjective] > having many names multinominousa1631 parti named1634 multinominal1656 polyonymous1678 polynomial1704 heteronymous1734 polynome1830 plurinominal1881 poecilonymic1889 polyonymic1889 polynomic1898 1734 I. Watts Ontol. vii Synonymous Relatives or of the same Name..Heteronymous or of a different Name. 1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind (1869) II. xiv. 22 The second class [of relative terms] were called by the ancient logicians heteronymous; we may call them more intelligibly, double-worded relatives. 2. Optics. Applied to the two images of one object seen in looking at a point beyond it, when the left image is that seen by the right eye and vice versâ: opposed to homonymous. ΚΠ 1881 J. Le Conte Sight 95 When we look at the farther finger, the nearer one is so doubled that the left image belongs to the right eye and the right image to the left eye..the images are said to be heteronymous, i.e., of a different name. 1881 J. Le Conte Sight 245 Phenomena illustrating the heteronymous Shifting of the two Fields of View. 3. ‘Pertaining to, of the nature of, or having a heteronym’ ( Cent. Dict.). Derivatives heteˈronymously adv. (see 2). ΚΠ 1881 J. Le Conte Sight 120 When we look at the farther finger, the nearer one is doubled heteronymously;—when we look at the nearer finger, the farther one is doubled homonymously. Draft additions 1993 4. Zoology. Of animal horns or their shape: such that the right horn core forms a left-handed spiral, and vice versa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having horns > of horns: heteronymous heteronymous1902 1902 G. Wherry in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Sept. 973/2 In the antelopes the right-hand spiral is on the left of the head and the left-hand spiral on the right of the head (heteronymous or crossed). 1917 D. W. Thompson On Growth & Form xiii. 619 In the markhor the twisted horns are heteronymous, as in the antelopes. 1969 H. Epstein Domestic Animals China v. 60 Over 50% of male Cashmere goats have straight horns,..with a slight but clearly discernible heteronymous turn. 1981 I. L. Mason in C. Gall Goat Production ii. 48 Animals with heteronymous and with homonymous twists occur in the same herd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1734 |
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