单词 | stellar groining |
释义 | > as lemmasstellar groining 2. Star-shaped, stellate. Chiefly of crystals; also Architecture in stellar vault (see quot. 1835), stellar groining. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > star-shaped starlike1578 star fashion1597 starry1597 star-shaped1646 asteristic1652 stellaceous1657 stellate1661 stellated1661 stellar1670 astral1672 stelliform1794 stellular1796 asteroid1854 1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1199 The Stellar Fish described in Numb. 57. 1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vii. 85 I would call this class of decorated vaults Stellar vaults, from the regular stellate form they assume on the plan. 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 286/1 The vaulting immediately preceding fan groining,..designated as stellar groining. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 383 It may be advisable to make a clump of planting of a stellar form. 1845 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. I. 55 Urate of soda..occasionally constitutes a very peculiar stellar form of deposit in the urine. 1851 E. Sharpe Seven Periods Archit. 36 The plans of these vaultings are very various; some are called Fan-tracery vaults, and others Stellar vaults, terms which explain themselves. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 299 Occasionally stellar phosphate—that is dicalcic phosphate—is thrown down when the acidity of the urine is diminished. < as lemmas |
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