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英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Trochlea
(n.)
A pulley.
Trochlea
(n.)
A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the
trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the
ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit,
through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye
passes.
Trochlear
(n.)
Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or
connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the
trochlear muscle of the eye.
Trochleary
(a.)
Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea;
trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.
Trochoid
(n.)
The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a
line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any
point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve
rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in
one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are
all trochoids.
Trochoid
(a.)
Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to
a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral
column.
Trochoid
(a.)
Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said
of certain shells.
Trochoid
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family
Trochidae.
Trochoidal
(a.)
Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties
of a trochoid.
Trochoidal
(a.)
See Trochoid, a.
Trochometer
(n.)
A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a
wheel; an odometer.
Trochosphere
(n.)
A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and
bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior
end.
Trochus
(n.)
Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells
belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae.
Some of the species are called also topshells.
Troco
(n.)
An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.
Trod
(imp.)
of Tread
of Tread
imp. & p. p. of Tread.
Trodden
(p. p.)
of Tread
p. p. of Tread.
imp. of Tread.