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单词 umbilic
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umbilicn.

/ʌmˈbɪlɪk/
Forms: α. 1600s vmbilike, vmbilicke, umbilick, umbelic(k, 1600s, 1800s umbilic. β. 1600s vmbilique, umbelique.
Etymology: < Latin umbilīcus umbilicus n., related to Greek ὀμϕαλός , and ultimately to navel n. Hence also French ombilic , †umbilic (1556), Italian um- , ombilico , ombellico , Spanish ombligo , Portuguese umbigo . In sense 1 probably stressed umbiˈlic.
1. The centre; the middle point or part. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > middle or centre
middleeOE
mideOE
midwardOE
middleheada1325
pointc1330
midsa1382
meanc1390
middleward1431
midstc1450
centrea1500
centrya1535
navel1604
umbilic1607
meditullium1611
half-way1634
umbrila1636
amidst1664
eye1671
umbil1688
omphalos1845
mid-career1911
middle-middle1926
α.
1607 Bp. J. King Serm. Oxon 5 Nov. 23 For the perpetration of it they went downe into the bowells of the earth, but for the inuention to the very vmbilicke, and centre of the earth.
1608 Bp. J. King Serm. St. Maries Oxf. 19 The verie middle and vmbilicke of natures prefined time.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 113 Ormus is as it were the umbelick of the gulph.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 265 Hell is in the Umbelic or navell of the world.
β. 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise iii. 143 It was round, and equall from the vmbelique or middle point, to euery side.1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe vi. 248 Not only in Wales and Scotland, but euen in the vmbilique of the Saxons Dominion.1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 214 In the umbelique or mid-part of this spatious Court is a quadrangular Tanck or Pond.
2. Geometry. (See quots. 1875 1876.)
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > on a curve
first polar1836
umbilic1843
spinode1852
stationary point1856
ineunt1859
triple point1872
tacnode-cusp1873
1843 MacCullagh in Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1840–4 (1846) 2 458 The focal hyperbola of the ellipsoid and the focal ellipse of the hyperboloid of two sheets, are umbilicar focals, and pass through the umbilics of these surfaces.
1875 P. Frost Solid Geom. (ed. 2) I. 166 The point-circles in which the variable circle terminates are called umbilics.
1876 Handbk. Sci. App. S. Kens. 46 At special points, called umbilics, the greatest and least curvatures (and therefore all the curvatures) are equal to one another. The sphere has the peculiarity that every point on it is an umbilic.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

umbilicadj.

Forms: Also 1500s vm-, 1600s umbilique, 1700s umbilick.
Etymology: < Latin umbilīcus (see umbilic n.), the ending being taken as adjectival.
Obsolete.
1. umbilic point n. a central point.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > sets or groups of points
umbilic point1586
involution1847
triad1850
range1859
point group1887
tetrad1889
tristigm1889
neighbourhood1891
trinode1891
trigraphy1895
Cantor set1902
web1909
limit cycle1918
Leech lattice1968
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > one of nine fixed positions > other points
fesse-point1562
nombril1562
honour point1572
umbilic point1586
navel point1725
abyss1753
a.Her.
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 105 Counterchanging of them by the fesse or vmbilique point of the sheeld.
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 184 This scutcheon..was of old named fessey target bycause that the fesse or vmbilique point of the coate armor is occupied with a targe or sheeld.
b.Math.1700 Moxon's Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 177 Umbilique Points, or the 2 Focus or Centre-Points in an Elipsis.
2. (See quot. 1681.)
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [adjective] > navel
umbilical?1541
umbilic1681
omphalic1808
omphalodic1890
1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Umbilic, belonging to the navel, or of the likeness or shape of the navel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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