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单词 autometry
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autometryn.

Brit. /ɔːˈtɒmᵻtri/, U.S. /ɔˈtɑmətri/, /ɑˈtɑmətri/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: auto- comb. form1, -metry comb. form.
Etymology: < auto- comb. form1 + -metry comb. form.
1. Self-measurement, self-estimation. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] > by oneself
autometry1829
self-rating1878
self-assessment1899
self-evaluation1900
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 371 You judge of others by yourselves, and therefore measure them by an erroneous standard whenever your autometry is false.
2. †The determination of some dimensions of a figure (such as area) from other, measured dimensions (such as lengths of radial lines) (obsolete). Also: the expression of the dimensions of parts of a human body in terms of its height. rare.
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1874 W. Houlston Inklings Areal Autometry 3 The novel branch of mathematics, here termed Autometry,..proves that inaccuracies of result prevail, when radial lines with rounded ends are relied upon as true square measures.
1874 Edinb. Rev. July 193 To render this method of autometry more intelligible, we subjoin a table denoting the chief symmetric proportions of the human figure, expressed in aliquot parts, and also in autometric lines.
1976 Acta Anatomica 94 311 A method of the proportion these bones individually bear to the stature of the same person to which the bones belong is worked out both as a multiplication factor and percentage proportion to the body stature. It has been amply demonstrated and concluded that this method be called ‘autometry’.
3. Mathematics. An isometry of a metric space to itself.
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1944 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 469 Any isometry between subsets of space can be ‘extended’ to an autometry of all space.
1973 H. Freudenthal Math. as Educ. Task xvi. 510 Congruent point triples can be mapped into each other by autometries of the whole space.
2008 J. Jorgenson & S. Lang Heat Kernel & Theta Inversion ix. 169 Let g be an autometry of H3.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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