| 单词 | rhomboidal reticulum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRhomboidal Reticulum 4. Astronomy. With capital initial. (The name of) a small, faint constellation of the southern hemisphere, between Dorado and Hydrus, shaped like a rhombus; the Net. In early use more fully †Rhomboidal Reticulum. Also (in form Reticuli) used as a postmodifier in the names of stars belonging to this constellation. Abbreviated Ret (no point). Cf. reticule n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Reticulum reticulum1811 net1861 reticule1867 Ret1922 1811 D. Brewster Ferguson's Astron. (new ed.) I. 423 (table) Reticulum Rhomboidum. The Rhomboidal Reticulum. 1823 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 113 227 (table) α Reticuli. 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours xii. 287 The constellations Grus, Hydra, Reticulum, &c. 1926 Science 8 Jan. (Suppl.) p. xiv The constellation of Reticulum, the net. 1990 P. S. Harrington Touring Universe through Binoculars vii. 212 Zeta Reticuli is a wide double star of great beauty set near the constellation's western border. 2005 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 Sept. b7 The discovery last month of a supernova..in outer fringes of the obscure galaxy NGC1559 in the constellation Reticulum. < as lemmas |
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