- Look up
dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Dactyl may
refer to:
Dactyl (mythology), a
legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a
metrical unit of verse...
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Dactylic hexameter (also
known as
heroic hexameter and the
meter of epic) is a form of
meter or
rhythmic scheme frequently used in
Ancient Gr**** and Latin...
- In Gr**** mythology, the
Dactyls or
Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from
Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the
archaic mythical race of male beings...
- A
dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/; Gr****: δάκτυλος, dáktylos, “finger”) is a foot in
poetic meter. In
quantitative verse,
often used in Gr**** or Latin, a
dactyl is a...
- (243) Ida I
Dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/ DAK-til) is a tiny
asteroid moon (1 mile, or 1.6 km, in diameter) that
orbits asteroid 243 Ida. It was
imaged by the Galileo...
- ages. Ida's moon
Dactyl was
discovered by
mission member Ann
Harch in
images returned from Galileo. It was
named after the
Dactyls,
creatures which inhabited...
- The
double dactyl is a
verse form
invented by
Anthony Hecht and Paul
Pascal in 1951. Like the limerick, the
double dactyl has a
fixed structure, is usually...
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Dactylic tetrameter is a
metre in poetry. It
refers to a line
consisting of four
dactylic feet. "Tetrameter"
simply means four
poetic feet. Each foot...
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Dactylic metre is any
meter primarily composed of
dactyls (long-short-short, or stressed-unstressed-unstressed). It may
refer to:
Dactylic tetrameter Dactylic...
- is a list of
named geological features on
asteroid 243 Ida and its moon,
Dactyl.
Idaean regiones (geologically
distinct areas) are
named after the discoverer...
