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单词 primary dial
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primary dial
c. With modifying word designating a particular type of sundial, as declining dial, primary dial, reflecting dial, universal dial, etc.azimuth, globe, horizontal, polar, spot, vertical dial: see first element.
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c1582 Instructions for Voy. to N. Amer. in D. B. Quinn New Amer. World (1979) III. 242/2 Lett Bavin never go att any tyme without a payer of writing Tables... And one alweis to attend him with..an universall Dyall a Crosse Staffe and Ephemerides or somme other Calculation Tables.
1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet (1707) ii. 165 In all declining Dials, the Elevation of whose Pole is less than the Sun's greatest Declination.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 373/1 Pendant Dials which are hung by the hand..commonly called Equinoctial or Universal Dials, are most used by Sea-Men and Travellers that oft shift Latitudes.
1702 A. Sharp Let. 17 Feb. in J. Flamsteed Corr. (1997) II. 917 More convenient and exact then Mr Molyneuxs Telescopicall Dyall.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Erect declining Dials, Dials whose Planes are not directly opposite to any of the Four Cardinal Points, but decline from the Meridian or prime Vertical Circle.
1782 Archaeologia 6 143 Vitruvius says they had horizontal, vertical, and declining dials.
1819 P. Nicholson Archit. Dict. I. 332 Deinclining Dials, such as both decline and incline, or recline.
1895 Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 2 279 Universal dial, twelve silver spoons, twelve ivory knives.
1929 Geogr. Jrnl. 73 457 The mobile circle carries a ring in a third plane which is graduated to serve as an equinoctial or universal dial.
2006 M. Lennox-Boyd Sundials vi. 69 When they also do not face directly south they are called reclining declining dials.
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