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  1. 1. n. A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = 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: opted
  4. 4. 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 r2th = 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: webster
  5. 5. A spiral whose polar equation is r2th = a; that is, a curve thesquare of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which theradius vector makes with a given line. Source: adambom
  6. 6. n. A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. n. An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note. n. A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = 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: ecdict

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