Gunter's scale

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌɡʌntəz ˈskeɪl/|/ˌɡʊn-/    美 /ˌɡʌntɚz ˈskeɪl/|[-ɾɚz-]

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

Gunter's scales plural

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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