| 单词 | reducing squares |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreducing squares reducing squares n. now rare a method of copying a drawing at a smaller scale (see quot. a1884); an instrument for performing this. ΚΠ 1878 Rep. Secretary War (U.S.) II. iii. App. OO. 1667 (table) Protractors, wooden... Rulers, metallic... Reducing-squares, brass. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 746/2 Reducing Squares, a mode of making reductions of drawings or designs. The original has lines drawn over it, dividing it off into squares... A piece of paper of the size desired is then divided into a similar number of squares, and the objects contained in the former squares delineated in the smaller ones. 1949 M. Ickis Standard Bk. Quilt Making 201/2 Draft a pattern of a smaller rooster by using reducing squares. < as lemmas |
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