quartering
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A division into four parts.
— Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
- Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
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A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
— The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.
动词 v.
- present participle and gerund of quarter
形容词 adj.
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Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
— Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.
- Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
- At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
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词源 1
By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.
词源 2
By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.
词源 3
By surface analysis, quarter + -ing.
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