lituus

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for lituus

lituus 🔊

lituus : කාහලය

lituus definition

Noun.

  1. A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
  2. An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
  3. 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.