Re: OT: coins and currency (was: [Theory] Types of numerals)
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 8, 2006, 3:17 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Johansson <andjo@F...> wrote:
>The original meaning is apparently "comparatively long along one
>axis", which is close enough to how I'd use it. The archetypical
>oblong shapes would be ovals and whatever the 3D shape you get if
you >rotate an oval around its longest axis is called.
American Heritage Dictionary:
1) Having a long dimension, especially having one of two
perpendicular dimensions, as length or width, greater than the
other, elongated.
2) Having the shape of or resembling a rectangle or an ellipse.
I don't think that solves anything!! It seems as though definition
one would fit shapes like a lozenge.
BTW, the shape one gets when rotating an oval around its longest
axis is called a watermelon.
Charlie
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