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arcuate

/ahr-kyoo-it, -eyt/US // ˈɑr kyu ɪt, -ˌeɪt //UK // (ˈɑːkjuːɪt, -ˌeɪt) //

弧形的,弧形,弧线型,弧度

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : bent or curved like a bow.

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Examples

  • The left hemisphere, the part of your brain responsible for language comprehension, Wernicke’s area, is connected to the part responsible for speech production, Broca’s area, by a fiber tract called the arcuate fasciculus.

  • What’s happening is a singer is better able to hear something and produce it vocally, presumably using this right arcuate fasciculus.

  • The frustules are curved or arcuate (arcus, a bow) in the side view, oblong and narrowed at the ends in the front view.

  • Valve narrow, with arcuate dorsal and straight ventral margin, acute at the ends.

  • Valve linear, with dorsal margin arcuate and the ventral margin straight.

  • Valve arcuate, without cost, transversely striated; pseudoraphe absent; pseudo-nodules at each end.

  • The valves of the auxospore are usually more or less arcuate, as in Cymbella, to which the genus is closely allied.