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has definitions from the field of fine art
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[ noun ] (fine art) a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts
Used in print (Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)In the observations at 4.3 mm ( Coates , 1959 a ) , the diameter of the antenna beam , 6 ' .7 , was small enough to allow resolution of some of the larger features of the lunar surface , and contour diagrams have been made of the lunar brightness distribution at three lunar phases . These contour diagrams also suggest a rather rapid falloff in the radio_brightness with latitude . The ratio of the measured antenna temperature_change during a drift scan across the moon to the average brightness temperature of the moon over the antenna beam ( assuming that the brightness temperature of the sky is negligible ) was found , by graphical integration of the antenna directivity diagram , to be 0.85 . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)There was only one way to accomplish this : by design , by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept . Related terms drawing block_diagram schematic zodiac venn's_diagram horoscope |
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[ verb ] make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed
Synonyms Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)He has announced results on Hokan , Penutian , Uto-Aztecan , and almost all other American families and phyla , and has diagrammed their degree of interrelation ; but he has not worked_out by lexicostatistics one comprehensively complete classification of even a single family other_than Salish . |
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