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inceptive

/in-sep-tiv/US // ɪnˈsɛp tɪv //UK // (ɪnˈsɛptɪv) //

感性的,敏锐的,感知性的,感知性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : beginning; initial.
    • : Grammar. expressing the beginning of the action indicated by the underlying verb, as Latin verbs in -scō, which generally have inceptive force, as calēscō “become or begin to be hot” from caleō “be hot.”
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Grammar.

    • : the inceptive aspect.
    • : a verb in this aspect.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Design an upward and onward continuous carved border for wood and base it upon a vertical inceptive axis.

  • In the foregoing examples the designs are more or less rigidly balanced over the inceptive axis or axis of symmetry.

  • It is only necessary to have this inceptive axis pass through the enrichment zone of the panel.

  • Figure 206 shows a design varied from formal balance over a central axis of symmetry or an inceptive axis.

  • Note how the center line of both units in Figures 225 and 226 coincides with the inceptive axis of the structure.