actinobolism
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Radiation; emission or projection.
— Here is the only difference betwixt the Actinobolism of Light and Sounds; that the one is performed in time imperceptible, though not instantaneous: the other in moments distinguishable, which are more or less according to the degrees of distance betwixt the sonant and audient.
词源
Borrowed from New Latin actinobolismus, from Koine Greek ἀκτινοβόλος (aktinobólos, “emission of rays”) + -ismus. Ἀκτινοβόλος is from ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”) + βόλος (bólos, “a throw”). First attested in the 1650s.
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