lunular

[ loo-nyuh-ler ]

adjective

1. crescent-shaped:

   lunular markings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lunular¹

First recorded in 1560–70; lunul(a) + -ar ¹

Example Sentences

And yet a lunular, in respect of the meeting of the shankes is both to the Systroides and Pelecoides heterogeneall: And therefore it is absolutely heterogeneall to it.

From Project Gutenberg

Then I seeke amongst the former quadrates, for the side of 1, the quadrate of the first periode; and I finde it to be 1: This side I place within the quotient or lunular on the right side: Lastly I subtract 1 from 1, and nothing remaineth.

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Let therefore the equall angle aeo. bee added to both: the right angle aei. shall be equall to the Lunular aueo.

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The same Lunular also may bee equall to an obtusangle and Acutangle, as the same argument will demonstrate.

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For oblique angles may bee equall betweene themselves: And an oblique angle may bee made equall to a right angle, as a Lunular to a rectilineall right angle, as was manifest, at the 6 e.

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