| 单词 | mathematical instrument |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmathematical instrument c. Designed for use in mathematics; spec. used in drawing geometrical figures. Esp. in mathematical instrument. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] mathematical instrument1588 rectificatory1593 pantometer1597 sector1598 holometer1696 multiplier1875 horn-centre1879 the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > adopted for mathematical use mathematical1588 mathematic1664 1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. E4 Most thinges they sawe with vs, as Mathematicall instruments, sea compasses, the vertue of the loadstone in drawing yron. 1663 A. Cowley College in Wks. (1721) II. 567 A Mathematical Chamber furnish'd with all Sorts of Mathematical Instruments, being an Appendix to a Library. 1696 London Gaz. No. 3224/4 Lost.., a small Pocket-Book of Mathematical Paper. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 18 A large Table filled with Globes and Spheres, and Mathematical Instruments. 1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 405 Mathematical rulers and excisemen's gauging sticks. 1823 Ld. Byron Let. 26 Dec. (1981) XI. 83 The Mathematical instruments are thrown away—none of the Greeks know a problem from a poker. 1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 284 A celebrated mathematical instrument-maker. 1919 S. Paget Sir V. Horsley 189 R. H. Clarke..also devised a stereotaxic apparatus, probably the most complex of all the mathematical instruments of physiology. 1995 Independent 21 Oct. (Weekend section) 22/2 The sad tale of the stingray, whose skin was routinely used in the 18th and 19th centuries in the manufacture of spectacle cases, mathematical instrument cases and the like. < as lemmas |
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