armillary sphere en · NOUN
Meanings
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An instrument consisting of graduated metal circles used to represent the motions of celestial bodies around the earth.
Most of this bench is covered with tiles of Moorish design, but on the front each is stamped with an armillary sphere in which the axis is yellow, the lines of the equator and tropics green, and the rest blue. These one would certainly take to be of Dom Manoel's time, for the armillary sphere was his emblem, but they are said to be older.
1908, Walter Crum Watson, Portuguese Architecture, page 24:
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Synonyms
Translations (24)
cmn 渾儀 /浑仪 (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · fi armillaari (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · pt esfera armilar (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · it sfera armillare (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · de Armillarsphäre (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · sv armilla (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · pl sfera armilarna (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · grc ἀστρολάβος (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · sv armillarsfär (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · el σφαιρικός αστρολάβος (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · ko 혼천의 (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · da armillarsfære (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · cmn 渾天儀 /浑天仪 (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · ca esfera armil·lar (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · cmn 渾象 /浑象 (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · ja 天球儀 (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · tr halkalı küre (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · fr sphère armillaire (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · fa ذات الحلق (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · ja アーミラリ天球儀 (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · ru армилля́рная сфе́ра (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · es esfera armilar (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · ja 渾天儀 (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles) · nl armillarium (instrument consisting of graduated metal circles)