pluteus
noun
plu·te·us
ˈplütēəs
plural plutei
-ēˌī
also pluteuses 1
a
: a low wall or parapet in ancient Roman architecture
especially : one used as a partition between the bases of columns
b
: an ancient Roman reading desk or storage place for manuscripts
2
[New Latin, from Latin] : the free-swimming bilaterally symmetrical larva of a sea urchin or ophiuran distinguished by several slender anteriorly projecting processes enclosing calcareous rods
Word History
Etymology
Latin
- differential analyzer
- differential association
- differential block
- differential brake
- differential calculus
- differential chain block
- differential diagnosis
- differential duties
- differential equation
- differential fertility
- differential gear
- differential geometry
- differential grasshopper
- differential indexing
- differential locust
- differential motion
- differential operator
- differential piece-rate system
- differential psychology
- differential pulley
- differential rate
- differential refraction
- differential route
- differential screw
- differential thermometer