| 单词 | oblique sphere |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoblique sphere oblique sphere n. [compare French sphère oblique (1611 in Cotgrave)] Astronomy (now rare) the celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis is at an oblique angle to the horizon (as it is at any point except at the poles and the equator); cf. parallel sphere n. at Compounds 2, right sphere n. at right adj. and int. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 15 The sphere is deuided into a right sphere and into an oblique or crokyd sphere. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §6. 223 In an Oblique Sphere, where the Horizon..cuts the Equator..at oblique Angles; neither of them passes thro' the Poles of the other. 1809 H. T. Colebrooke in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 9 357 The star, rising cosmically, became visible in the oblique sphere, at the distance of 60° from the sun. 1926 H. N. Russell et al. Astron. I. i. 23 (heading) The oblique sphere. oblique sphere oblique sphere, parallel sphere, right sphere: see oblique adj. 2b, parallel n. 1b, right adj. 3a.extracted from spheren.< as lemmas |
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