Meaning of 'lituus'

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Meaning of ‘lituus’

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lituus

(Rom. Antig.) (a) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. (b) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

(Math.) A spiral whose polar equation is r

h = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University

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