“rectificatory”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

rectificatory

释义

▪ I. † rectificatory, n. Obs.
[See next and -ory.]
A mathematical instrument used in the construction of dials.
The description given by Sebastian Münster in his Horologiographia (1533) 98 is: ‘Voco autem rectificatorium, instrumentum triangulare orthogonium, formam habens scaleni, cuius latus breuius basis, medium cathetus, longius vero hypotenusa dicitur’. A figure of the instrument is given on p. 100 of the same work.
1593T. Fale Dialling A iij, Some teach the making of Dialls by the helpe of the Globe... Munster useth a Rectificatory with a circle, which is unfit for small plats, and faileth in greater, without great heede.
▪ II. ˈrectificatory, a.
[ad. L. type *rectificatōrius: see rectify v. and -ory.]
That rectifies; corrective.
1866Lond. Rev. 3 Feb. 133/2 Hypothetical and rectificatory budgets of ordinary and extraordinary expenditure.1886Manch. Exam. 8 Feb. 5/2 The rectificatory note which Sir H. A. has sent to the papers.

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