Definition of Lituus. Meaning of Lituus. Synonyms of Lituus

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Definition of Lituus

Lituus
Lituus Lit"u*us, n.; pl. Litui. [L.] 1. (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. 2. (Math.) A spiral whose polar equation is r^2[theta] = 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.

Meaning of Lituus from wikipedia

- undertaking. The lituus was also used as a symbol of office for the college of the augurs to mark them out as a priestly group. The ancient lituus was an Etruscan...
- general, the arc length of the lituus spiral cannot be expressed as a closed-form expression, but the arc length of the lituus spiral can be represented as...
- he was described as "Lituista Regius"—"royal lituus player". In the second half of the 18th century "lituus" was described in one source as a Latin name...
- Opisthostoma lituus is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae. This species...
- An augur with sacred chicken; he holds a lituus, the curved wand often used as a symbol of augury on Roman coins...
- Denarius (42 BC) of C****ius and Lentulus Spinther, depicting the crowned head of Liberty and on the reverse a sacrificial jug and lituus....
- scholars believed that the alphorn had been derived from the Roman-Etruscan lituus, because of their resemblance in shape, and because of the word liti, meaning...
- r=a/\varphi } Fermat's spiral: r=aφ1/2{\displaystyle r=a\varphi ^{1/2}} The lituus: r=aφ−1/2{\displaystyle r=a\varphi ^{-1/2}} The logarithmic spiral: r=aekφ{\displaystyle...
- natural trumpet, b**** trumpet, post horn, Roman tuba, buccina, cornu, lituus, shofar, dord, dung chen, sringa, shankha, lur, didgeridoo, alphorn, Russian...
- of Fermat's spiral r = a√φ under the inversion at the unit circle is a lituus spiral with polar equation r=1aφ.{\displaystyle r={\frac {1}{a{\sqrt {\varphi...