vestige

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mark left on the earth by a foot.
  2. A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present. broadly
    — the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra
  3. A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.
    — Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.
  4. The remaining portion of a partially suppressed sideband.
    — [J]ust a trace, or vestige, of the other sideband is included. In the receiver detection circuitry the vestige of the lower sideband is added to the upper sideband.

词形变化

vestiges plural

词汇关系

近义词
relic remains remnant residue trace
衍生词
vestigial vestigiality
相关词
hint trace

词源

From French vestige, from Latin vestīgium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”). Doublet of vestigium.
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