O'Neill cylinder

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词形变化

O'Neill cylinders 复数 O'Neill cylinders

释义与例句

n.
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    A proposed space settlement consisting of two cylinders that rotate to provide artificial gravity via centrifugal force.

词源

Proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space.

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