| 单词 |
planimetry |
| 释义 |
planimetry|pləˈnɪmɪtrɪ|
Also 4 planemetrie; 7 planametrie, -ye; 8–9 plano-.
[Ultimately f. L. plān-us flat + -metria, -metry, on L. type plānimetria; the ME. planemetrie prob. represents an OF. form; but F. planimetrie appears only as of 1520 in Godef. Compl., and med.L. planimetria is cited only from 16th c., though prob. used much earlier. Planametry and planometry are formed on less correct analogies.]
The measurement of plane surfaces; the geometry of plane surfaces, plane geometry.
1390Gower Conf. III. 134 Ful many a worthi clerc ther is, That writen upon this clergie The bokes of Altemetrie, Planemetrie and eke also. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire i. (1892) 4 The miles beinge multiplied together and reduced to Planametrie, the onlye meanes to knowe the contente of anye thinge. 1674Phil. Trans. IX. 85 In Planimetry, the Measuring of Triangles with and without a Perpendicular. a1696Scarburgh Euclid (1705) 94 In this 35th Proposition Euclide makes an entry into the Doctrine of Planometry. 1795–8T. Maurice Hindostan (1820) I. i. xii. 439 From planimetry, or the mensuration of surfaces, they soon proceeded to the more complicated science of stereometry, or the mensuration of solids. 1884tr. Lotze's Metaph. 227 They would have been able to add the geometry of the newly discovered direction to the Planimetry which they possessed without having to change anything in their previous perceptions. |
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