Gunter's scale

短语

发音

UK /ˌɡʌntəz ˈskeɪl/
UK /ˌɡʊn-/
US /ˌɡʌntɚz ˈskeɪl/
US /-ɾɚz-/

词形变化

Gunter's scales 复数 Gunter's scales

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which is marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by means of which many problems in navigation and surveying may be solved mechanically, using only divides.

词源

From Gunter + -'s + scale, from the surname of its inventor, the English clergyman, geometer, and mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581–1628).

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