| 单词 | tropic point |
| 释义 | > as lemmastropic point tropic point n. = sense A. 1b. [Compare post-classical Latin punctus tropicus (1496 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > circle of celestial sphere > [noun] > great circle > ecliptic > cardinal points > solstice sunsteadOE tropicc1450 tropic point1559 turn-point1587 principal point1591 solstice1601 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 36 These circles [sc. colures] also are drawne by the .ij. tropike pointes, deuiding the eclipticke in two equall partes. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 76 When the Sun is in the 1. degree of Gemini, he is as far from the Tropick point of Cancer, as when he is in 29. degrees of Cancer. 1701 Acct. Life in T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) sig. b Stanley,..thinks his Gnomon did only note the Tropick and Equinoctial Points. 1896 A. Quiller-Couch Poems & Ballads by ‘Q’ 52 Had I not heard Perchance of latitudes when the wheel of the sun Kept the sea boiling? Of the tropic point Where white men turned hop-skip to blackamoors? 1990 R. M. Durling & R. L. Martinez Time & Crystal 123 The procedure alludes to the tropic points, the movements of conversio in the sun's motion. 2006 R. Beck Relig. Mithras Cult ix. 220 The lunar quartering effects for the Moon what the standard quartering by tropic points effects for the Sun. < as lemmas |
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