| 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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