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Oculus ( plural oculi ) is the Latin word for eye, and the word remains in use in certain contexts, as the name of the round opening in the top of the dome of the Pantheon in Rome, and in reference to other round windows, openings, and skylights.
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Oculus and is
The Oculus in the Pantheon, Rome, has always been open to the weather, allowing rain to enter and fall to the floor, where it is carried away through drains.
The Oculus Rift is an upcoming virtual reality ( VR ) head-mounted display created by Palmer Luckey that the company Oculus LLC is developing for virtual reality simulations and video games.
Oculus and for
An anonymous writer composed a short guide for the would-be podestà ( though it would be unseemly to appear openly to run for the office ), Oculus pastoralis, of about 1222 ; in six simple and brief chapters it guides the novice through the requirements of the office, the salary, the address of welcome given by the retiring podestà to the new one, the choice of counsellors, the handling of money accounts.
* Lt. Linderman Oculus ( Monitor Division Director )-Observed Alpha Flight for signs of regression from brainwashing.
In Oculus Enoch et Eliae, besides describing one of his inventions, an eyepiece for a Keplerian telescope, which left the image reverted, it also contained a long section on binocular telescopes, which greatly influenced other telescope-makers and opticians in the next century.
Oculus and eye
* Oculus sinister, meaning " left eye " in eyeglass prescriptions
Oculus means eye.
It has the traditional names Ain ( Arabic عين ), or Oculus Borealis, both of which mean " eye ".
Oculus and top
The Oculus ( top ) in the dome of the Pantheon, Rome
Oculus and dome
File: Nationalgalleryoculus. jpg | Oculus of the West Building dome
Oculus and Pantheon
File: Oculus of the Phanteon. JPG | Oculus of the Pantheon.
Oculus and .
The short stories " Melville on Iapetus " ( 1983 ), " Promises to Keep " ( 1984 ), " Oculus " ( 2002 ), " The Big Downtown " ( 2005 ), " Kaminsky at War " ( 2006 ), and " Maiden Voyage " ( 2012 ) are also set in the Academy universe.
Johann Zahn's " Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium, which was published in 1685, contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and of the magic lantern.
In 2010, the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's opened St Paul's Oculus, a 270 ° film experience that brings 1400 years of history to life.
Oculus was funded by American Express Company in partnership with the World Monuments Fund, J. P.
Image: Mantegna. jpg | Oculus on the ceiling of the Spouses Chamber, castle of San Giorgio in Mantua, Italy, by Andrea Mantegna
auch Heinrich Meyer zu Ermgassen, Bearb., Der Oculus Memorie ein Güterverzeichnis von 1211 aus Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau, Teil 2: Edition, Wiesbaden 1984 (= Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Nassau, Bd.
Image: Oculus of mercury. jpg | Detail of oculus set in a cartouche with the head of Mercury ( Beaux-Arts New York and New Jersey Telephone Company Building, Brooklyn )
File: Oculus Santa Maria Assunta di Collemaggio. jpg | Italy, L ' Aquila, Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio ( 1287 ).
He collected his poems in 1720, and wrote another university satire, Oculus Britanniæ, in 1724.
In 1645, he published Oculus Enoch et Eliae, siue, Radius sidereomysticus, a very influential work on optics and astronomy.
plural and is
A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
The abacus ( plural abaci or abacuses ), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes.
The preferred plural of abacus is a subject of disagreement, with both abacuses and abaci in use.
Specifically, is the neuter plural of, an adjective related to the verb ἀποκρύπτω ἀποκρύπτειν ( apocriptein ), " to hide something away.
An acropolis (; akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city ; plural: acropoleis or acropolises ) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground — frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.
The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".
Arthritis ( from Greek arthro -, joint +-itis, inflammation ; plural: arthritides ) is a form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints.
In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.
Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.
( plural ), the term used to identify those who practice Ásatrú is a compound with ( Old Norse ) " man ".
In English usage, the genitive " of Æsir faith " is often used on its own to denote adherents ( both singular and plural ).
A Goði or Gothi ( plural goðar ) is the historical Old Norse term for a priest and chieftain in Norse paganism.
The Western suffix-e is from the Classical singular and the Eastern suffix-its is from the Classical plural ; both have been generalized for singular and plural in the dialects that use them.
In ancient Roman religion, an aedicula ( plural aediculae ) is a small shrine.
Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.
The currency of the country is the lev ( plural leva ), pegged to the euro at a rate of 1. 95583 leva for 1 euro.
The fruit is a peculiar kind of capsule named siliqua ( plural siliquae, American English silique / siliques ).
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), Anatho ( Isidore Charax ), Anatha ( Ammianus Marcellinus ) by Greek and Latin writers in the early Christian centuries, Ana ( sometimes, as if plural, Anat ) by Arabic writers.
Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the scriptores.
The Boii ( Latin plural, singular Boius ; Greek ) were one of the most prominent ancient Celtic tribes of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ), Pannonia ( Hungary and its western neighbours ), in and around Bohemia, and Transalpine Gaul.
The word consonant comes from Latin oblique stem cōnsonant -, from cōnsonāns ( littera ) " sounding-together ( letter )", a calque of Greek σύμφωνον sýmphōnon ( plural sýmphōna ).
A codex ( Latin caudex for " trunk of a tree " or block of wood, book ; plural codices ) is a book made up of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, or similar, with hand-written content, usually stacked and bound by fixing one edge and with covers thicker than the sheets, but sometimes continuous and folded concertina-style.
A single compact set is sometimes referred to as a compactum ; following the Latin second declension ( neuter ), the corresponding plural form is compacta.
cos .; Latin plural consules ) was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire.
When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").
First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".
A die ( plural dice, from Old French dé, from Latin datum " something which is given or played ") is a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers.
E ( named e, plural ees ) is a vowel and the fifth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
Sileni is the plural ( Latin ) form of Silenus, a creature often related to the Roman wine god, Bacchus, thus represented in pictorial art as inebriated, merry revellers, who are mounted on donkeys, singing, dancing, playing flutes etc.
It is possible, Samarrai says, that French scribes, writing in Latin, attempted to transliterate the Arabic word fuyū ( the plural of fay ), which was being used by the Muslim invaders and occupiers at the time, resulting in a plurality of forms-feo, feu, feuz, feuum and others-from which eventually feudum derived.
In ancient Rome, the genius ( plural in Latin genii ) was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family ( gens ), or place ( genius loci ).
H ( named aitch, plural aitches, or haitch ) is the eighth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
An infundibulum ( Latin for funnel ; plural, infundibula ) is a funnel-shaped cavity or organ.
The corresponding noun is amor ( the significance of this term for the Romans is well illustrated in the fact, that the name of the City, Rome — in Latin: Roma — can be viewed as an anagram for amor, which was used as the secret name of the City in wide circles in ancient times ), which is also used in the plural form to indicate love affairs or sexual adventures.
Historically, manuscripts were produced in form of scrolls ( volumen in Latin ) or books ( codex, plural codices ).
The name Nostratic derives from the Latin word nostrās, meaning ' our fellow-countryman ' ( plural: nostrates ) and has been defined, since Pedersen, as consisting of those language families that are related to Indo-European.
Italian, for example, has a group of nouns deriving from Latin neuter nouns that acts as masculine in the singular but feminine in the plural: il braccio / le braccia ; l ' uovo / le uova.
O ( named o, plural oes ) is the fifteenth letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
An ovum ( plural ova, from the Latin word ovum meaning egg or egg cell ) is a haploid female reproductive cell or gamete.
The word opera means " work " in Italian ( it is the plural of Latin opus meaning " work " or " labour ") suggesting that it combines the arts of solo and choral singing, declamation, acting and dancing in a staged spectacle.
Credited as the first to use a diminutive of organ ( i. e., little organ ) for cellular structures was German zoologist Karl August Möbius ( 1884 ), who used the term organula ( plural of organulum, the diminutive of Latin organum ).
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