| 单词 |
stereographic |
| 释义 |
stereographic, a.|ˌstɛriːəʊˈgræfɪk|
[ad. mod.L. stereographicus, f. Gr. στερεό-ς solid + -γραϕικός: see -graphic. Cf. F. stéréographique, It. stereografico.]
1. Delineating or representing a solid body on a plane; applied spec. to a kind of projection used in maps, etc., in which the centre of projection is a point on the surface of the sphere, and the whole sphere is represented once on an infinite plane, circles being represented as circles, and the angles being retained.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Stereographick Projection. 1706W. Jones Palm. Math. A 4 b, The Laws of the.. Stereographic..Projection of the Sphere. 1730Greenwood in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 68 In the Figures I have attempted the Stereographic Projection of the most considerable Scenes. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 611 In those Stereographic Maps, where a..Hemisphere is projected upon a Plan parallel to a Meridian. 1863Harbord Gloss., Navig., s.v., The stereographic projection of the sphere is a natural projection of the concavity of the sphere, on a diametral plane as primitive, the eye being placed on the surface at the opposite extremity of the diameter perpendicular to the primitive. 1872Proctor Ess. Astron. iv. 62 A..chart of Mars on the stereographic projection. 1879Sir A. R. Clarke in Encycl. Brit. X. 203 Notwithstanding the facility of construction, the stereographic projection is not much used in map-making.
†2. Used to designate the ‘stereotype steel plates’ used for reproducing copper-plate engravings. Obs.
1810in Abridgm. Specif. Patents, Printing (1859) 122 Plates thus constructed are what I call Perkins' ‘steriographic [sic] steel plates,’ one of which will serve to give as many impressions as would wear out a great number of copper-plates.
3. Pertaining to stereoscopic photography.
1859Atlantic Monthly June 748 To render comparison of similar objects, or of any that we may wish to see side by side, easy, there should be a stereographic metre or fixed standard of focal length for the camera lens. Ibid., Already a workman has been travelling about the country with stereographic views of furniture.
4. Pertaining to the use of the stereograph in craniometry. (See stereograph 2.)
1886Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 26/1 Particular methods of craniometric projections, diverse stereographic proceedings [etc.]..cannot here be mentioned in detail. |
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